Where is God?

[dattaswami]

Where is God?
God: reachable or unreachable?
O Learned And Devoted Servants of God,

The Bhagavad Gita says that nobody knows God (Maamtu Veda Na kaschana). The Veda says that words, mind, intelligence, logic and even imagination cannot touch God (Yato Vachah…Manasa saha; Na Medhaya; Naisha Tarkena). The Veda also says that if one knows that God is unknown, he knows atleast something about God (Yasyaa matam Tasya Matam).

These three statements declare that God is unknowable and unreachable. Yet the same Veda says that God is present on this earth itself (Yat Saakshat Aparokshat). Similarly the Gita also says that God reveals Himself on the earth in every human generation as per the necessity (Tadaatmaanam Srijaamyaham). These two statements say that God can be seen by humans. How can one correlate these two contradicting sets of statements?


The first set of statements implies that you cannot catch God by your effort. The second statement indicates that whenever the kindest God wants to reveal Himself, He comes to the earth. You can see God on earth but He cannot be understood. Therefore the first statement is not contradicted. Fine, you have seen Lord Krishna. However as a boy He lifted a mountain on His little finger.

Did you understand this? Definitely not! The Gita says that God comes down in a human body to preach to human beings (Manusheem Tanum Ashritam). Then you can see and touch Him. You can talk and live with Him. But He is not understood. He is seen only to prove that He cannot be understood.

 

[knerd]

In Christianity, I have noticed two main ways of understanding God. One could be called "transcendent." This means that God is somehow outside of creation and intervenes in history on a case by case basis (the life of Jesus, miracles, etc.) but as a rule is distant but also receptive to prayer. The second case is called "immanent" (I know this part for a fact, meaning I have read about it before. This means God is within and without Creation continually.

My belief falls on the side of immanent presence of God because I hold that God is the very ground of our being. That everything is and from the one divinity, God Himself.

 

[Arj]

once we are born again we are aware of God around,or with us.

 

[Ivy]

Jesus came to earth, as the Son of God, was seen by the will of the Father, and is understood by revelation of His Holy Spirit, by those who believe in Him.

 

[dattaswami]

God is never non-existent

The Veda says “Asanneva Sa bhavati…†etc. This hymn means “God exists while being the non-existent. Realize that God is both the existent and non-existent items. Then you will realize that God existsâ€Â. This hymn needs an elaborate analytical explanation. You can bring another Vedic statement here (Tat Srushtvaa…, Satcha Tyat Chaabhavat…). This means “God created the world and entered into it. Then He became both existent and non-existentâ€Â. Bring the Gita here (Manusheem Tanum...), which means that God enters the human body.


The non-existent items (Asat) are energy, matter and awareness, forms and feelings. Forms and feelings are non-existent with respect to matter and awareness. Both matter and awareness are non-existent with respect to energy. Energy is non-existent with respect to God. God is never non-existent. He is always existent (Sat). When God enters in the energetic form, the energetic form consists of form and energy and both these are relatively true (Asat) items.

When God enters the human body, the body consists of matter, energy, awareness, forms and feelings, which are also relatively true (Asat) items only. You have to take that form as God as you take the live wire as current. If you agree that the unimaginable God exists and enters imaginable items, which are non-existent (since they are relatively true), now you can say that God exists and is visible. Through the imaginable and relatively non-existent items (like energetic form or human body) only you can experience God.


The Veda says that God becomes both ‘Sat’ and ‘Tyat’. God exists as God and also as non-God (body and soul). In human body, He entertains Himself under the illusion of forms and feelings like an ordinary human being. If necessary, He will rise to higher level and will realize that forms and feelings are unreal. If still necessary, He will rise to still higher level, will realize both matter and awareness as unreal, and will perform miracles. Finally, He will rise to the highest level, where energy also becomes unreal and in this state, He is creator, maintainer and destroyer of the world. In this highest level only the Gita or the Bible or (divine knowledge) comes out.

 

[dattaswami]

God alone can preach about Himself

God alone can preach about Himself
The Veda says that the Lord alone knows about Himself (Brahma vit Brahmaiva). The Gita says that nobody other than the Lord can know the Lord. Some people misinterpret this Vedic statement as “He who knows Brahman becomes Brahmanâ€Â. But this interpretation contradicts the Gita because the Gita says that nobody other than the Brahman can know Brahman. The conclusion of this is that the Lord alone can preach about the Lord or Himself. Therefore, from this point of view also the Lord has to come down in human form to preach about Himself. When the Lord preaches, He preaches the concept very clearly. Based on this knowledge, you will naturally conclude that the Preacher is the Lord Himself. This is inevitable with any human incarnation.

If you have any doubt about the preacher being the Lord, you can analyse His knowledge. First you must see whether He is quoting the scriptures as a support while introducing the concepts. Then you must apply the faculty of your analysis and see whether His interpretations are logical. When you are satisfied with His divine knowledge in all angles and if such knowledge indicates Him as the Lord you must accept Him. If you are unable to do this, you are covered by jealousy and egoism. Shankara says that the knowledge to identify Brahman (Brahma Jnana) should be heard only after purifying your mind from egoism and jealousy.

 

[Pathfinder]

once we are born again we are aware of God around,or with us.

I agree 100 %.

 

[Paidion]

The first set of statements implies that you cannot catch God by your effort. The second statement indicates that whenever the kindest God wants to reveal Himself, He comes to the earth. You can see God on earth but He cannot be understood. Therefore the first statement is not contradicted. Fine, you have seen Lord Krishna. However as a boy He lifted a mountain on His little finger.

Did you understand this? Definitely not! The Gita says that God comes down in a human body to preach to human beings (Manusheem Tanum Ashritam). Then you can see and touch Him. You can talk and live with Him. But He is not understood. He is seen only to prove that He cannot be understood.

(1) If I cannot "catch" God by my own effort, if He is unknowable
(2) If I cannot understand the teaching of the Veda
(3) If I can "see" and "touch" God only if He reveals Himself by coming "down" in a human body

then there's nothing I can do to contact Him. I am not responsible for not knowing Him.

As far as Him "revealing Himself in a human body" is concerned, there have been hundreds of human beings claiming to be God. How can I know which one is God, if any?

 

[Captain Sarcastic]

Dattaswami, are you the same character who was booted from the Zolaboards? At zolalevitt.com?

Folks, methinks Dattaswami's a troll.

 

[dattaswami]

The first set of statements implies that you cannot catch God by your effort. The second statement indicates that whenever the kindest God wants to reveal Himself, He comes to the earth. You can see God on earth but He cannot be understood. Therefore the first statement is not contradicted. Fine, you have seen Lord Krishna. However as a boy He lifted a mountain on His little finger.

Did you understand this? Definitely not! The Gita says that God comes down in a human body to preach to human beings (Manusheem Tanum Ashritam). Then you can see and touch Him. You can talk and live with Him. But He is not understood. He is seen only to prove that He cannot be understood.

(1) If I cannot "catch" God by my own effort, if He is unknowable
(2) If I cannot understand the teaching of the Veda
(3) If I can "see" and "touch" God only if He reveals Himself by coming "down" in a human body

then there's nothing I can do to contact Him. I am not responsible for not knowing Him.

As far as Him "revealing Himself in a human body" is concerned, there have been hundreds of human beings claiming to be God. How can I know which one is God, if any?

Pleasing the God in His divine mission should be your ultimate aim. To serve Him in His divine mission, you need the basic requirements like food, shelter etc. For that you need a job if you do not have sufficient support. Today the householders are not respecting the real monk because several mockers are there in the dress of monk. You must study well to secure a job.

For all this, your life should exist and therefore, you should never think of the suicide under any circumstances. If you are turned to ultimate aim, all your problems will be solved by God. You must have full faith in Him and infinite patience because God always has a special style of helping His devotee through an unimaginable way and that too in the last fraction of the last second. Your faith should not vibrate even if that last fraction of last second has also gone, because He can change the past, present and future in any way.

He can take the present into past, past into present, future into present and future into the past. For God, after all, the time is also a relative reality like space. For some, the ultimate aim is the pleasure of the self or pleasure of the family. A person who aims at the self-pleasure is worst. A person who sacrifices his pleasure for the sake of the family is a better soul because the concept of sacrifice has started in it. But such soul should analyze and realize that the other souls will not even recognize it after leaving these gross bodies here. Thus, the ultimate aim should be divine, aiming at the God.

 

[dattaswami]

Never criticize any one in the world

Dattaswami, are you the same character who was booted from the Zolaboards? At zolalevitt.com?

Folks, methinks Dattaswami's a troll.

Never criticize any one in the world. If you do not like to praise somebody, keep silent. If you scold somebody and suppose God is hidden in that person, it will lead to immediate punishment. Worship of God and insulting God will have immediate results in this world because both are powerful (Atyutkataih Papapunyaih……). The help and insult to the colleague souls will have results in the upper world in heaven and hell. But the service and insult to God in human form and devotees will have immediate results here itself.

Generally it is very difficult to identify God in human form who will try to hide Himself by looking like an ordinary person or some times looking like even a negative person. God in human form acts according to the role taken on the stage of the world. The role is according to the divine program drawn by God Himself. The role generally does not contain the supernatural behavior, which will create problems of free mixing of God with the souls. The role consists of mainly normal behavior and sometimes subnormal behavior to test the devotees or to drive away the undeserving devotees who will try to exploit God. In such case there is every possibility of misunderstanding God as a normal human being or some times as a bad human being.

If you neglect God assuming Him as a normal human being, there is nothing wrong in it and you will not be in loss even though you may not have the benefit. But if you insult Him assuming a bad fellow, that is the greatest sin and will have immediate negative effect. Since, we cannot trace out God easily, it is better not to criticize even a bad fellow. Leave him to his fate. Who are you to criticize anybody? You have lot of bad points shown by your bulky thumb, when you point out others with your lean finger. The constitution of God running the divine cycle of deeds will take care of everything in the world. Why do you unnecessarily take the risk of insulting the hidden God?

 

[dattaswami]

God comes in human form for a multi-dimensional program

Jesus came to earth, as the Son of God, was seen by the will of the Father, and is understood by revelation of His Holy Spirit, by those who believe in Him.

God comes in human form for a multi-dimensional program. He preaches divine knowledge covering all humanity including atheists. Miracles are mainly for atheists alone and some atheists have been converted into theists through the miracles. God receives the services of certain blessed devotees, who had done a lot of penance with that desire. He selects for His service only such a blessed soul, who has done a lot of penance in the past.

The human incarnation mainly comes here only to fulfill the desire of such blessed devotees. Having come to earth for that purpose, He always tries to uplift all through the divine knowledge and miracles. The few exceptional blessed devotees are pleased to serve the Lord personally and see the pleasure on the face of the Lord, for which they did a lot of penance for several births. This is the main purpose of the visit of God in human form to earth.

 

[dattaswami]

In Christianity, I have noticed two main ways of understanding God. One could be called "transcendent." This means that God is somehow outside of creation and intervenes in history on a case by case basis (the life of Jesus, miracles, etc.) but as a rule is distant but also receptive to prayer. The second case is called "immanent" (I know this part for a fact, meaning I have read about it before. This means God is within and without Creation continually.

My belief falls on the side of immanent presence of God because I hold that God is the very ground of our being. That everything is and from the one divinity, God Himself.

knerd;

The Lord is not modified into the human body (when He comes in human form) like milk changing into curd. The Lord only enters the human body like the electric current entering a wire. The Lord is beyond even your imagination and is called ‘avyakta’ (unmanifest). He cannot be achieved by any human effort. But the kind Lord enters the human body and comes down as a human incarnation. The Gita says the same (Manusheem tanumasritam, Avyaktam vyaktim apannam). This incarnate Lord can be seen and touched. You can talk with Him and live with Him. The Lord is only in two states:

1) Avyakta (unmanifest): He cannot be touched even by imagination.

2) Vyakti (manifest): He enters a human body and pervades all over the human body.

In between these two states there is no state in which the Lord is available. All this creation is only a modification of His power called ‘Maya’. By touching the Maya you cannot touch Him. The base of Maya is the Lord; like the person in the shirt. By touching the shirt you cannot touch Him. The sacred thread worn by priests consists of three strings, which means that you must catch the human form of the Lord, which is made of the three qualities. Maya is His mind and the world is the modification of His mind. Neither the world nor Maya, which is the power pervading all over the universe, can give you the touch of the Lord. The threads of the shirt are like the Maya. The wrinkles of the shirt are the various items of this world.

You cannot say that the Lord as avyakta (unmanifest) is formless. He is beyond your imagination and you cannot say whether He has form or not. The formless power is Maya, which is modified into various forms of the world. People who meditate upon the all-pervading power are only touching the Maya and not the Lord who is the base of Maya.

 

[LostSoul]

You cannot say that the Lord as avyakta (unmanifest) is formless. He is beyond your imagination and you cannot say whether He has form or not. The formless power is Maya, which is modified into various forms of the world. People who meditate upon the all-pervading power are only touching the Maya and not the Lord who is the base of Maya.

Dattaswami,

Please keep in mind, not everyone here at Christian Forums is of your religious beliefs or practices. So there may be other views or interpretations of how members here may see or not see God.

For although I cannot speak for everyone here, I am one who does not believe in reincarnation and the like. Rather, the trinity....God the Father, Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit or Ghost. Understandably you may not which is fine. God alone can judge each of our hearts and determine our final judgement. So while sharing or stating your point of view in terms of what you feel to be the falsehood of others, please consider that just because someone has different views from you does not necessarily make them wrong.

For as you said yourself....God alone knows all.

May God Bless You

Danielle

 

[dattaswami]

You cannot say that the Lord as avyakta (unmanifest) is formless. He is beyond your imagination and you cannot say whether He has form or not. The formless power is Maya, which is modified into various forms of the world. People who meditate upon the all-pervading power are only touching the Maya and not the Lord who is the base of Maya.

Dattaswami,

Please keep in mind, not everyone here at Christian Forums is of your religious beliefs or practices. So there may be other views or interpretations of how members here may see or not see God.

For although I cannot speak for everyone here, I am one who does not believe in reincarnation and the like. Rather, the trinity....God the Father, Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit or Ghost. Understandably you may not which is fine. God alone can judge each of our hearts and determine our final judgement. So while sharing or stating your point of view in terms of what you feel to be the falsehood of others, please consider that just because someone has different views from you does not necessarily make them wrong.

For as you said yourself....God alone knows all.

May God Bless You

Danielle

One should not differentiate between 'our god' , 'your god' etc. There is only one God. Jesus was also God who came in human form. He was there even before Abraham means He was God. Only God was present intially before creation, this means that Jesus was God who came in human form. Your Jesus is very much our Jesus because He is unborn and exists from the begenning. But we go one step ahead and say that such unborn God or Jesus comes in every human generation, that you all reject. You accept only the preaching of your human fellow being and there is a great chance that their preaching may err because they are not God only mere human beings. Thus their preaching may strengthen your worldly bonds and you may not get salvation.

Real devotee wishes to see, touch, and talk to God. They strive for that. To fulfil their desire, Lord Jesus comes to this earth. By that one can clear all the doubts and one can serve Him directly also. Such facility exists in Lord in human form.

Probably this is very very very difficult to digest. Do not worry. You may still love your neighbours as your self. And when you are matured in loving other human beings for a long time and serve them, one day Lord will come in human form to you and will preach you the secret of divine knoweldge for your salvation. Till then you have to train your self in treating others as your self and serve them with love.

 

[dattaswami]

The first set


(1) If I cannot "catch" God by my own effort, if He is unknowable
(2) If I cannot understand the teaching of the Veda
(3) If I can "see" and "touch" God only if He reveals Himself by coming "down" in a human body

then there's nothing I can do to contact Him. I am not responsible for not knowing Him.

As far as Him "revealing Himself in a human body" is concerned, there have been hundreds of human beings claiming to be God. How can I know which one is God, if any?

Even though original GOd is unimaginble (that is why Lord Jesus told, nobody knows God); He comes down in human form to give His presence to us. By doing so one can approach Him without any tension and co-live with Him. Those devotees who longed and wished for His presence will get such fortune. But majority of the people do not accept Lord in huaman for and miss this great opprotunity. Thus if you are eligible God will certainily appear infront of you in human form. It is upto you. God will never force anybody, because the love to Him should be spontaneous. If the love is forced one what is the reality in such love!

Thus this world is a big class room with various types of dveotees with varying level of maturity. 99% of them are very very low level and they expect something from God always for their worship to God. But greatest devotees NEVER EXPECT ANYTHING FROM GOD FOR THEIR SERVICE TO HIM. They treat God as their beloved and serve Him.

Now, Lord Jesus told whoever see Me has seen the Heavenly Father. Thus only through human incarnation you can see 'Unimaginable God'. When you serve Lord in human form you are serving the invisible GOd present in the human incarnation. God directly receives your service. Thus He get pleased. The service from the sinner Lady was very much relished by the Lord.

So, try to accept and learn the divine knwoeldge from Lord in human form, atleast in theory!!

 

[LostSoul]

You cannot say that the Lord as avyakta (unmanifest) is formless. He is beyond your imagination and you cannot say whether He has form or not. The formless power is Maya, which is modified into various forms of the world. People who meditate upon the all-pervading power are only touching the Maya and not the Lord who is the base of Maya.

Dattaswami,

Please keep in mind, not everyone here at Christian Forums is of your religious beliefs or practices. So there may be other views or interpretations of how members here may see or not see God.

For although I cannot speak for everyone here, I am one who does not believe in reincarnation and the like. Rather, the trinity....God the Father, Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit or Ghost. Understandably you may not which is fine. God alone can judge each of our hearts and determine our final judgement. So while sharing or stating your point of view in terms of what you feel to be the falsehood of others, please consider that just because someone has different views from you does not necessarily make them wrong.

For as you said yourself....God alone knows all.

May God Bless You

Danielle

One should not differentiate between 'our god' , 'your god' etc. There is only one God. Jesus was also God who came in human form. He was there even before Abraham means He was God. Only God was present intially before creation, this means that Jesus was God who came in human form. Your Jesus is very much our Jesus because He is unborn and exists from the begenning. But we go one step ahead and say that such unborn God or Jesus comes in every human generation, that you all reject. You accept only the preaching of your human fellow being and there is a great chance that their preaching may err because they are not God only mere human beings. Thus their preaching may strengthen your worldly bonds and you may not get salvation.

Real devotee wishes to see, touch, and talk to God. They strive for that. To fulfil their desire, Lord Jesus comes to this earth. By that one can clear all the doubts and one can serve Him directly also. Such facility exists in Lord in human form.

Probably this is very very very difficult to digest. Do not worry. You may still love your neighbours as your self. And when you are matured in loving other human beings for a long time and serve them, one day Lord will come in human form to you and will preach you the secret of divine knoweldge for your salvation. Till then you have to train your self in treating others as your self and serve them with love.

Dattaswami,

I am sorry but I believe you have completely twisted my words around. All I ask is that you keep in mind not every person here is Hindu. Not everyone here believes as you. Not that I am saying in any way, shape, or form to stop witnessing. But you seem to blatantly judge anyone who does not share your faith or religion (Hindu). Is it not written in your religious text to love others as you would yourself or perhaps not to judge?

Christ Jesus, remarkably was not the sort to encourage judging of one's brethren...be they of belief or unbelief...in fact, He encouraged love. Not to say Christ never rebuked. For He did. I just ask you perhaps consider how you are wording things to other members here. For just as you would not want one of another religion to press their faith on you, others surely feel the same about yours.

May God Bless You

Danielle

 

[dattaswami]

Danielle[/quote]

One should not differentiate between 'our god' , 'your god' etc. There is only one God. Jesus was also God who came in human form. He was there even before Abraham means He was God. Only God was present intially before creation, this means that Jesus was God who came in human form. Your Jesus is very much our Jesus because He is unborn and exists from the begenning. But we go one step ahead and say that such unborn God or Jesus comes in every human generation, that you all reject. You accept only the preaching of your human fellow being and there is a great chance that their preaching may err because they are not God only mere human beings. Thus their preaching may strengthen your worldly bonds and you may not get salvation.

Real devotee wishes to see, touch, and talk to God. They strive for that. To fulfil their desire, Lord Jesus comes to this earth. By that one can clear all the doubts and one can serve Him directly also. Such facility exists in Lord in human form.

Probably this is very very very difficult to digest. Do not worry. You may still love your neighbours as your self. And when you are matured in loving other human beings for a long time and serve them, one day Lord will come in human form to you and will preach you the secret of divine knoweldge for your salvation. Till then you have to train your self in treating others as your self and serve them with love.[/quote]

Dattaswami,

I am sorry but I believe you have completely twisted my words around. All I ask is that you keep in mind not every person here is Hindu. Not everyone here believes as you. Not that I am saying in any way, shape, or form to stop witnessing. But you seem to blatantly judge anyone who does not share your faith or religion (Hindu). Is it not written in your religious text to love others as you would yourself or perhaps not to judge?

Christ Jesus, remarkably was not the sort to encourage judging of one's brethren...be they of belief or unbelief...in fact, He encouraged love. Not to say Christ never rebuked. For He did. I just ask you perhaps consider how you are wording things to other members here. For just as you would not want one of another religion to press their faith on you, others surely feel the same about yours.

May God Bless You

Danielle[/quote]


Again i tell you that God never forces any body. You are again specifying 'Hindu' etc. Lord Jesus never speak of religion, since He was above religion, only petty human beings stamp religion on Jesus. In bible itself Lord Jesus tells to pray to heavenly Father for sending more messengers into the world, also He tells that such messenger should be recognized from His fruits or preachings. Also He tells that one who recognize a prophet and care for Him then one will get the reward for that. Also Jesus emphasis on how much spiritual effort one has to put to overcome the worldly bonds. All these are nicely given in bible.

God is only to be found in 'Son of God' who comes to this world. No other way.

 

[LostSoul]

Again i tell you that God never forces any body. You are again specifying 'Hindu' etc. Lord Jesus never speak of religion, since He was above religion, only petty human beings stamp religion on Jesus. In bible itself Lord Jesus tells to pray to heavenly Father for sending more messengers into the world, also He tells that such messenger should be recognized from His fruits or preachings. Also He tells that one who recognize a prophet and care for Him then one will get the reward for that. Also Jesus emphasis on how much spiritual effort one has to put to overcome the worldly bonds. All these are nicely given in bible.

God is only to be found in 'Son of God' who comes to this world. No other way.

Did you even read my post? Please read my posts before replying. For I am sorry, but I feel you completely missed the point of what I was saying. This is a Christian Forum which has members of various religions...yes, religions which as you said is not what Christ looks into. He does indeed judge the heart. That is something we ARE in agreement on. At the same time, as I have said before there are members here of Catholic beliefs, Christian beliefs, and even an atheist or too. So please do not go telling people they are wrong because they are not in agreement with you.

For is that not in an essence what all religions do that tends to drive people away from God rather than toward? With that being said I will bow out of this topic for I feel it is far too one sided and not really open for discussion.

May God Bless You

Danielle

 

[dattaswami]

Again i tell you that God never forces any body. You are again specifying 'Hindu' etc. Lord Jesus never speak of religion, since He was above religion, only petty human beings stamp religion on Jesus. In bible itself Lord Jesus tells to pray to heavenly Father for sending more messengers into the world, also He tells that such messenger should be recognized from His fruits or preachings. Also He tells that one who recognize a prophet and care for Him then one will get the reward for that. Also Jesus emphasis on how much spiritual effort one has to put to overcome the worldly bonds. All these are nicely given in bible.

God is only to be found in 'Son of God' who comes to this world. No other way.

Did you even read my post? Please read my posts before replying. For I am sorry, but I feel you completely missed the point of what I was saying. This is a Christian Forum which has members of various religions...yes, religions which as you said is not what Christ looks into. He does indeed judge the heart. That is something we ARE in agreement on. At the same time, as I have said before there are members here of Catholic beliefs, Christian beliefs, and even an atheist or too. So please do not go telling people they are wrong because they are not in agreement with you.

For is that not in an essence what all religions do that tends to drive people away from God rather than toward? With that being said I will bow out of this topic for I feel it is far too one sided and not really open for discussion.

May God Bless You

Danielle

When one loves each other above religion then only one pleases the heavenly father.

If a Christian loves another Christian as his brother, there is no greatness in it. Similarly, there is no greatness if a Hindu loves another Hindu as his brother. The greatness lies if a Christian loves the Hindu as his brother and vice-versa. A true Christian must love a true Hindu as his brother and should treat a wrong Christian as an outsider.

Similarly a true Hindu must love a true Christian as his brother and must treat a wrong Hindu as an outsider. Suppose you are in white dress. An outsider is also in the white dress, but your own brother is in blue dress. Based on the colour of the external dress will you treat the outsider who is in the same colour of the dress as your own brother?

Will you treat your own brother as an outsider because the colour of his dress is different from your dress? You are recognizing your own brother not by the external dress but by the internal body in which your own parental blood is flowing. Similarly, you are recognizing the outsider as the outsider based on the point that his inner body contains some other parental blood.

Therefore, you must recognize your real brother not by the external religion but you must recognize your brother by the internal spirituality. If the spiritual values and levels are coinciding to your stage, such a devotee is your real brother whether he is a Hindu or a Christian or a Muslim or a Buddhist. For example take the spiritual value of speaking the truth. Any person belonging to any religion must be your real brother if he speaks the truth.

You must treat a person as an outsider even if he is belonging to your religion if he is a liar. The spiritual value is the real parental blood i.e., descending from the original Godfather. When this is achieved the universal spirituality becomes meaningful and alive. Therefore, analyse and judge the spiritual values of other person to make friendship with him irrespective of his nationality, language, caste, sex, age and religion.

God will be immensely pleased if this attitude is developed. The main aim of our Universal Spirituality is only to establish such angle of view in the world. The religion is only external culture, which is related to language, habits of dress, habits of food and habits of regional styles of life.