My personal beliefs backed by theories of Sanatam Dharma [also known as Hinduism]and various other teachings from many 'faiths'I like to see God as a strong beautiful flame burning blissfully in a coloured glass lantern. God is the flame of consciousness and the one who lights the flame. God is complete. All.
Whichever piece of coloured glass you look through, depends on what you see, because it is God that is already full of different personalities and able to show perfect messages, fit for those who receive them.
May be you see God as Jesus, or Allah or Krsna. However, it is not that you see it like that, because God actually is Jesus, Allah, and Krsna.
But we are all moulded with the same clay by the same hand
The teachings of the Vedas are not something to convert to...anyone can follow these philosophies..and most probably do whatever faith they 'belong' to or follow.
........I believe we are taught to see the light in all souls. As opposed to discriminating against them using material branding, religions and class.
.....to be compassionate and non-ignorant - not narrow minded to let labels dictate life [teachings of Krishna/Hinduism/vedas etc guide me to be like this]
Krsna taught Arjun that a good person has these virtues [from the Rig Vedas]: and again many of these overlap with scriptures of many faiths
Fearlessness, purity of heart, perseverance in the yoga of knowledge, charity, sense restraint, sacrifice, study of the scriptures, austerity, honesty; (16.01)
Non-violence, truthfulness, absence of anger, renunciation, equanimity, abstaining from malicious talk, compassion for all creatures, freedom from greed, gentleness, modesty, absence of fickleness; (16.02)
Splendour, forgiveness, fortitude, cleanliness, absence of malice, and absence of pride; these are the qualities of those endowed with divine virtues, O Arjun. (16.03)
It is these virtues by which we balance our karma. And God is Truth.
...also, to not discriminate against others using their beliefs as a benchmark to measure them by. But to see God - Not as a power that exists ONLY in one name, because otherwise this will lead you to think that others who believe in God of a different form are wrong.
Sanatam Dharam is a philosophy of life, not meant to bind, oppress or restrict, but guide. It is important to not go to the excess that doing everything we want and thinking everything we want is still sanatana dharma
One builds their karma through ones actions. And most importantly God is loving and compassionate. He doesn't see good in killing. Ahimsa is one of the highest virtues God has told us to live by.
The Dharma sastras and related texts support my thinking and theory:
1-The Law of Divine Unity
The whole universe is permeated with divine presence. Therefore one should deal with every object in it as if one is dealing with oneself or with God.
God is omnipresent and omniscient. Everything in this universe is thus very sacred and very divine. Because it is filled with the presence of God, every thing here deserves respect and consideration.
Those who seek harmony and peace in life understand this principle very well and treat every thing in the world with due respect and a sense of sacredness.
The Law of Inherent Balance
There is an inherent balance in all created things. If you want peace and happiness all around you and within you, you have to respect this law and keep this balance in your life as well as your environment.
Everything in this world is balanced. For every force here there is an opposite and balancing force. Pairs of opposites hold the world. You destroy one and you will destroy the other soon.
According to this law, happiness and peace are possible only when you do not disturb the harmony and the order that exists in yourself and in the whole creation around you.
This law demands that you have to treat every one as how you want to be treated by others.
He, who is aware of this truth, treats every object in the universe with unconditional respect, love and consideration.
He treats everything and everyone here the way he treats himself or the way he expects others to treat him.
He treats everyone and every thing as if it is a part of him or an aspect of God.
The Law of Individual Reality
You are the creator of your life and your reality. Your thoughts become your actions and your actions create the circumstances in your life. You are responsible for everything that happens to you in your life.
This is the simple law of as you sow so you reap.
It can also be called the law of motion and emotion.
Every thought that we send out into the universe comes back to us with accumulated energy of its own kind.
When negative thoughts go out of our minds, they will come back to us with redoubled negative energy and give us lot of pain and unhappiness.
Positive thoughts on the other hand bring in positive energy and energize us, establishing in the process peace and harmony in our consciousness.
Our actions too yield the same results. Our positive actions bring in positive rewards and our negative actions bring negative rewards.
The energy that we unleash, either in the form of a thought or action always comes back to us with increased force.
Thus through our actions and thoughts we are constantly creating our own realities.
Whatever we give comes back to us.
The Fifth Law: The Law of Harmony
Truth is Harmony; Truth is 'Rta', order.
The ancient believed in 'rta' (pronounced ritha) meaning the universal order or harmony. 'Rta' is an ancient word to which we can trace at least few important words that are known to us today. One is the Sanskrit world 'ritu', which means season. The others are the Latin word 'rhythmus', the French word 'rhythme', the Greek word 'rhuthmos' and the English word 'rhythm', all meaning, beat, pulse, metre, pattern, order, flowing, and harmony.
Let us understand why the concept of harmony and rhythm was considered so important by our ancient generations and why they elevated it to the level of highest divinity.
They did so because they considered Truth, harmony and order to be the Ultimate Reality lying beyond all realities, the hidden secret behind all manifest creation, or the Absolute Truth above all relative truths.
What is truth?
Truth does not necessarily mean only verbal truths.
Truth is the fundamental reality where there are no conflicts and confusion, no divisions and separation, but only unity and harmony. Truth is where there is movement without obstruction and where there is order without confusion.
Where there is conflict, separation and feeling of alienation, there is no truth.Where there is division and alignment of divisions into opposing parts there is no truth.
There is no truth in ones life and ones being unless there is total harmony in ones whole being, which include ones activities, thoughts and environment.
Truth resolves all conflicts, divisions and differences and establishes permanent peace, order and harmony in ones life.
There is conflict when you consider the world outside is different and separate from you.
There is conflict when you consider others are different and separate from you.
There is conflict when you consider that some one is good, or some one is bad; that some thing is this or some thing is that. There is conflict as long as you pass petty judgements about yourself or about the world around you.
Unless you learn to resolve these differences, by expanding your consciousness, and learn to appreciate them in their own light, you cannot have real harmony and peace in your life.
The ordinary mind cannot understand this truth because it is still steeped in ignorance.
But at the highest level of consciousness, all conflicts and confusion resolve themselves into one beautiful, harmonious whole. You may call it divine. You may call it God, This or That. The fact is, it is one, it is whole, it is harmony and order, without any divisions and without any conflicts.
At that level even in the seemingly chaotic conditions of life one can perceive harmony and certain order. That which we understand as good or that we understand as bad, become but the facets of the same Truth.
He lives in harmony with himself and with others, with the world within himself and with the world external to him. He suffers not from fear or insecurity, or from worries and anxieties about himself or his life.
This is the truth.
If you want to live in peace, stop categorizing and grouping things and people, and it includes you also.
Stop judging things from the relative state of your mind, against the partial truths you know and believe in.
Understand that harmony comes when you live in peace with the world around you, and when you accept it whole heatedly and unconditionally without measuring it against your limited knowledge.
It happens when you become an embodiment of 'Rta', the rhythm of life and creation, in which the ancients believed so much.
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