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A Review of God/Ishwar/It/Brahman/Prabhu/Bhagaban in Hinduism

I was updated the book 'Getting to the Point' in Internet Archive and in The Allurement of Reality in Review Shop to the introduction of: ‘It is moving steadily along a certain way’.

 

Then I felt that these words need to be analysed:

 

Mark the precise words that came out: I am just the observer; ‘It’ is Brahman now: It is moving steadily along a ‘certain’ way. Where is God? What is God: He is the Creator of Brahman. Together it is being referred to as ‘It’. That is why my concept is known as Vishista Advaita Vedanta.

 

Sometimes in reverence/bhakti I utter ‘Hey Prabhu’ – that is Brahman translated now as ‘It’ in English. But at other times, I have also been uttering: ‘Hey, Bhagaban’ which is God personified. Years ago while watching a TV programme on a Aghori baba who was being interviewed on why he was living the way he was; his reply was ‘Ishwar’ Prapti hoga' in Hindi, namely that he might capture an Entity that he was referring to as ''Ishwar'. Now I think that He was referring to Brahman as Ishwar and in Oriya I have been referring to the same Brahman as ‘Prabhu’; whilst having gone on record that I have had Bhagaban-Prapti Another aspect is that ‘Ananda’ (Bliss) only results periodically in this concept from Bhagaban-Prapti, not Prabhu/Brahman/It-Prapti. And further that this ultimate Reality is deeply associated with karma in sanatan dharma, not meditation on the banks of the River Ganga or in Temples.


This seems to be the full explanation of Vishista Advaita as a Vedanta.

 
 
 

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