| The Concept of God |
| God - the Cosmic Life Force |
| God is neither an idol, nor an individual nor
merely a power or energy. This God is Divine Power endowed with
Divine Consciousness and Divine Intuition. This God is Omnipresent,
Omnipotent and Omniscient. |
| Jeevanvidya defines the concept of God as under. |
| God is Intrinsically Automatic, Self-regulatory,
Natural, Systematised Order, endowed with the Universal Laws
of Nature. |
| Let us try to explain this theory briefly: |
| Intrinsically Automatic: The earth revolves
round itself and simultaneously it rotates round the Sun. The
formation of blood in the human body is yet another example.
There are many examples relating this theory that you will find
in the books. |
| This Systematised Order is Self-regulatory: The
Planets rotate in their orbits in a regular fashion, not more
rotations nor less. |
| This Systematised Order is Natural: Nobody has
created the Systematised Order, but it exists naturally from
ages to ages. It is a wonderful, miraculous, secret of Nature.
The divinity of God is this. |
| How this Order exists in Systematised
form: A human being gives birth to a human being, who is just
like him. A mango tree bears the fruits of mangoes; a lion or
an elephant give birth to young ones like them and even the
fishes produce fishes like themselves. |
| How this Systematised Order is endowed
with the Universal Laws of Nature: Many universes are generated
from this God, stay for some period and again vanish into the
vast ocean of the God, only to be regenerated again and again
according to the Universal Laws of Nature. The entire life of
Man, animals, birds and fishes is governed by the Universal
Laws of Nature. |
| God is neither Kind nor
Cruel. |
| The important principal of Jeevanvidya
is that God neither blesses nor punishes anybody, irrespective
of his religion, caste, creed, sect or race to which he may
belong. Similarly God neither interferes nor meddles with the
affairs of the human being for any reason whatsoever. What is
important is the actions of Man and the Laws of Nature. As soon
as actions are performed by Man the Laws of Nature are activated
and eventually reactions are received by him from the God in
the form of peace and happiness or miseries and sufferings.
For example, electricity neither blesses or curses anybody,
but it reacts favourably or unfavourably according to the knowledge
or ignorance of the person who handles it. |
| God does not create the
Universe. |
| The important principal of Jeevanvidya
is that God does not create all the universes, but all the universes
including all the creations immerge and manifest from the God.
For example, man does not create sweat from his own body but
the sweat is automatically immerged from his body. Another example
can be given. In the sleep, Man experiences various sorts of
dreams. Man does not create all these dreams, but these dreams
come into existence automatically and experienced by him. |
| Rites and Rituals have no
place in the Kingdom of God |
| Man labours under the impression
that he can please God by performing particular rites and rituals.
But this is not correct. This can briefly be explained as follows.
The fact is that in the vast expanse of the Universe, the world
in which we live in is like a small drop of water in the ocean.
Whereas our world itself is an insignificant drop of water in
the vast ocean of the God, it is needless to state, that Man
is absolutely an insignificant entity in the infinite empire
of God’s universe. Just as in the Kingdom of Man, he gives
no importance whatsoever, to the creation, existence and destruction
of insects such as bugs, ants and mosquitoes, similarly in the
vast Kingdom of God, there is no importance whatsoever, to the
existence or extinction of human beings. It is therefore unnecessary
to clarify separately that the variety of rites and rituals
that people belonging to different religions perform, are of
no importance as far as God is concerned. |
| God’s relation with
Environment and Ecology. |
| As mentioned above, the God manifests
in the form of all universes and all creations, and this Life
Force is ever present in all the creations. All these creations,
are extremely important for the very existence of and also continuation
for animate and inanimate life. All the creations may not be
important from Man’s point of view, but they are most
essential from the point of view of all the living being and
non-living beings. Mankind is not the only important part of
the Universe, but each and every creation and form is essential
and dependent on one another for the Ecological Cycle and for
the promotion of the Environment. If man is subtracted from
the cycle of evolution, the other creations will continue to
survive efficiently, but if any of the other creations are subtracted
then the human race will suffer or might even face extinction. |
| The Theory of the Incarnation
of God. |
| It is generally believed that God
takes incarnation on this earth for blessing good people and
for punishing evil people. Similarly, people believe that God
sends his representative on this earth in the form of Prophet,
Angel or His Son. As explained above, human race is one of the
enormous and various creations and his place in the Kingdom
of God is quite insignificant. Just as a bug, or insect has
absolutely no place in the life of Man, it is therefore incorrect,
even to imagine, that the God takes incarnation for the welfare
and the well being of the entire human race. The truth is that
Man’s life is governed by the Universal Laws of Nature
in relation to his good or bad actions and not by the grace
of God. |
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