Celebrating Shravan with Shiva -23

 Shiva Day Twenty-three

 The Concept of God in Hinduism by Swami Krishnanada

1.  The Mahabharata says that Narayana alone was at the beginning, who was the Prius of the creative, preservative, and destructive principles, the Trinity known as Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva – the Supreme Hari, multi-headed, multi-eyed, multi-footed, multi-armed, and multi-limbed. This was the Supreme Seed of all creation, subtler than the subtlest, greater than the greatest, larger than the largest, and more magnificent than even the best of all things, more powerful, than even the wind and all the gods, more resplendent than the Sun and the Moon, and more internal than even the mind and the intellect. He is the Creator, the Father Supreme.

2.  The Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata, says: The Supreme Brahman is beyond existence and non-existence. It has hands and feet everywhere, heads, mouths, eyes everywhere, ears everywhere, and it exists enveloping everything. Undivided, it appears as divided among beings; attribute less, it appears to have attributes in association with things. It is the Light of all lights, beyond all darkness, and is situated in the hearts of all beings.

He is the sacrifice, He is the oblation, He is the performer thereof, He is the recitation of the chant, He is the sacred fire, He is what is offered into it. He is the father, the mother, the grandfather, the support, the One knowable Thing, He is the three Vedas, the Goal of all beings, the Protector, the Reality, the Witness, the Repository, the Refuge, the Friend, the beginning, the middle and the end of all things. He is immortality and death, existence as well as non-existence. He is the Visvarupa, the Cosmic Form, blazing like fire and consuming all things.

3.  According to the Bhagavata and the Mahabharata, God especially manifested Himself as Bhagavan Sri Krishna, who is regarded as the foremost of the divine Incarnations, in whose personality the Supreme Being is fully focussed and manifest.

In the Dwapar Yuga Krishna knew very well that he was an avatar of  Shree Mahavishnu and was recognized as Purna Purusha ” The Complete Man” God is described as having 16 Kalas or rays or qualities or arts or attributes. An Avatar comes for a specific purpose and all the 16 Kalas are not needed to achieve that, but Lord Krishna was a complete incarnation with 16 Kalas as there was a great need to harmonize different paths of yoga and to deliver the Gita. Hence the Bhagavad Gita is the most comprehensive scripture of a supreme orator. Srimad Bhagavata says: He is Brahman (the Absolute), Paramatman(God),                        Bhagavan(the Incarnation).

Brahma Samhita (5.46) mentions Krishna to be the origin of all Avataras and Shrimad-Bhagavatam (10.8.15) confirms Krishna to be the origin of all Incarnations.

 

Chapter 11 of the Bhagavad Gita stimulates your audio-visual senses to understand the cosmic image of Krishna.

Chapter 15, it stimulates your intellect to understand the conscious working of the Universe where Krishna is identified as consciousness; the supreme personality of God Head or Purna Purushottam or grand Self or Brahman in the domain of the cosmos. 

Chapter 17 has a language of consciousness to interconnect. (A unified field that carries a vibration classified as OM or the langue of the creator.) Om is infinite; it existed before time and space. ll OM TAT SAT ll says it all.