Any difference between the god of the Bhagavad Gita or Upanishads? Just wondering if one is less wrathful than the other.
2007-10-17 11:50:41 · 7 answers · asked by ? 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-10-17 11:54:40 · update #1
Could you be more specific? :)
2007-10-17 11:55:33 · update #2
Ultimately, I think god would not have a religion, he/she would be universal. So I don't see why one would be different form the other in this sense.
2007-10-17 12:01:09 · update #3
Hindu scriptures can give some mystical answers.
Who is God? Where is God? How can I come to know God?"
God has no names, but all names are the names of God. Whether you call Him this or that, He remains Who He is. But in our tradition we call God by the loving name Siva, which is only one of His 1,008 traditional names. Supreme God Siva is both within us and outside of us. Even desire, the fulfillment of desire, the joy, the pain, the sorrow, birth and death -- this is all Siva, nothing but Siva. This is hard to believe for the unenlightened individual who cannot see how a good, kind and loving God could create pain and sorrow. Actually, we find that Siva did not -- not in the sense that is commonly thought. God gave the law of karma, decreeing that each energy sent into motion returns with equal force.
In looking closely at this natural law, we can see that we create our own joy, our own pain, our own sorrow and our own release from sorrow. Yet we could not even do this except for the power and existence of our loving Lord. It takes much meditation to find God Siva in all things, through all things. In this striving -- as in perfecting any art or science -- regular daily disciplines must be faithfully adhered to.
Siva is the immanent personal Lord, and He is transcendent Reality. Siva is a God of love, boundless love. He loves each and every one. Each soul is created by Him and guided by Him through life. God Siva is everywhere. There is no place where Siva is not. He is in you. He is in this temple. He is in the trees. He is in the sky, in the clouds, in the planets. He is the galaxies swirling in space and the space between galaxies, too. He is the universe. His cosmic dance of creation, preservation and dissolution is happening this very moment in every atom of the universe. God Siva is, and is in all things. He permeates all things. He is immanent, with a beautiful form, a human-like form which can actually be seen and has been seen by many people in visions. He is also transcendent, beyond time, cause and space.
That is almost too much for the mind to comprehend, isn't it? Therefore, we have to meditate on these things. God Siva is so close to us. Where does He live? In the Third World. And in this form He can talk and think and love and receive our prayers and guide our karma. He commands vast numbers of devas who go forth to do His will all over the world, all over the galaxy, throughout the universe. These are matters told to us by the rishis; and we have discovered them in our own meditations. So always worship this great God. Never fear Him. He is the Self of your self. He is closer than your own breath. His nature is love, and if you worship Him with devotion you will know love and be loving toward others. Devotees of God Siva love everyone.
This is how God Siva can be seen everywhere and in everyone. He is there as the Soul of each soul. You can open your inner eye and see Him in others, see Him in the world as the world. Little by little, discipline yourself to meditate at the same time each day. Meditate, discover the silent center of yourself, then go deep within, to the core of your real Being. Slowly the purity comes. Slowly the awakening comes.
By Satguru Sivaysubramuniya Swami
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2007-10-18 01:49:13 · answer #1 · answered by Siva 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If there were any difference He wouldn't be God now would He. The difference is only in the experience of God. He said that people who are wrapped up in their intellect/ego and the world cannot know Him or understand spiritual things. God has not changed, We have. For those who have overcome self righteousness and worldliness can sense God, feel His love and even hear His voice. The first evidence of God is in the conscience. Listen to that and obey it and that voice will grow stronger. Dismiss it as mere imposed cultural and societal oppression and it will diminish. When everyone finally stops listening conscience shuts down and we have what we are seeing today. He is not silent. We have our ears plugged and our music turned up too high. Really.
2016-05-23 05:40:59 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's like the difference between Tinkerbell and Puck.
How "wrathful" they are usually depends on society that the believers live in. Compare the Christians of the Inquisition to modern "moderate" Christians. Religions are vague and rely heavily on emotional hooks. Occasionally, those hooks including inciting violence towards those of differing beliefs. Sometimes it is just mundane group binding and guilt trips. Religions change over time.
2007-10-17 11:53:33 · answer #3 · answered by nondescript 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
If the monotheistic religions are right, that there's only one God, then sure there is no difference at all ("What's the difference between God and God ...?").
2007-10-17 12:01:19 · answer #4 · answered by juexue 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The God of the bible is the true God!
God bless
2007-10-17 11:56:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
What difference? They are both delusions.
2007-10-17 11:53:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
The one in the Bible is true and the other faker isn't
2007-10-17 11:55:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 7⤋