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REPENTANCE IS ESSENTIAL TO RECEIVE FORGIVENESS
Submitted by K Prabhakar Rao on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 10:11. 9/11 Americans Bhagavad-Gita forgivenss jesus Magdalane Peter Repentance Terrorists Wra in and AfghanistanIt is believed that repentance is the basis for receiving forgiveness of God. It also forms the indication of our love towards God. It is also true that only voluntary love is truthful while external show of love to show off or by virtue of some compulsion can not be a true love. It is a fake show and will be rejected summarily. God would never demonstrate his power and strength to obtain our love. It has to be voluntary from outside. Repentance is the indication of such voluntary step towards showing love towards God. If we take two steps towards God in this way, it is also believed that God would take ten steps towards us and forgive us off our deeds. Those men who prefer in the materialistic worldly pleasures to the pleasures out of love towards God would be the losers and God will still certainly wait the moment patiently for the day of repentance (1).
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Knowledge as Path to Truth
Submitted by K Prabhakar Rao on Sun, 08/26/2007 - 06:29. Bhagavad-Gita faith commons Faith, Meaning & Purpose jeevatman jnana yoga krishna prakritit purusha swami vivekanandaThe four Yogas recommended by Hindu scriptures for attainment of truth are Bhakti (devotion or worship) yoga, Jnana (Knowledge) Yoga and Raja (analysis of mind)) Yoga and Karma Yoga (action). What is yoga? Yoga means “to join”, i.e. to join human soul with the supreme soul that is termed as God. Most of the times, people identify yoga with some sort of meditation involving concentration of mind being off from the outside world. It is also identified with acts of abstaining from human reflexes and breathe control. But this is not entirely so. Yoga touches man at every level, physical, mental and spiritual. It is a practical method of making ones life noble, purposeful and useful. It is generally believed that yoga is more practical of all the applied sciences and is more beneficial to mankind under all conditions and circumstances. This method is truly for the rationalists. While Bhakti Marga or devotional path seeks union with supreme by love and devotion, a Jnana yogi pursues union with supreme by power of reason.
Soul and Super Soul
Submitted by K Prabhakar Rao on Sun, 07/01/2007 - 11:50. Bhagavad-Gita Faith, Meaning & Purpose soul super soul The word soul is much debated in religious context through out the world. In normal parlor too, we hear people commenting “My soul does not agree” when a person does not accept certain aspects in the daily life.Some say “ The music has touched and stirred my soul”. What does it mean when some one says “My soul does not agree?” or “Music has touched my soul”. Obviously, a person believes that there is some thing inner which he identifies separately. The dictionary meaning of soul is given below (1):-
Univeral Form of God
Submitted by K Prabhakar Rao on Fri, 04/13/2007 - 10:41. Bhagavad-Gita panendeism panentheismThe world religions by and large claim that the world has been created by the God who is identified as the infinity, absolute and omnipotent and omnipresent force of unmatching capabilities. Some claim God to be out of universe (Dualistic) who has created the universe, while others are of the opinion that Universe is a part of God but not entirely constituting God. Few claim that God is within Universe but separate and this is monotheism. The word God is also invariably associated to a male. There is another theory that claims that God is complete universe and this is panenthism coined by German philosopher Karl Christian Freidrich Krause (1781-1832).The aspects of Panendeism can be traced all of the way back to Plato, the Neoplatonism of Plotinus, Meister Eckhart, and Giordano Bruno. Fuller elaborations of panentheistic beliefs can be found in the development of German Idealism, starting with Immanuel Kant and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, but particularly in the work of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, as well as in the Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and in the development of Process Theism in the 20th century, in the work of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne (1).
