Discussion With Mr. Kenneth Young Continuous
Q. In one of your comment, you said Hindus don’t
worship God, can you say in detail?
Ans. Sir, before I answer, may I know, what is
worship according to you ?
Q. What exactly you mean?
Ans. I mean, what are the main features of worship,
like thought, actions etc.
Q. According to me, worship or praying means an
action of showing gratitude to God, saying the wishes, and expecting that these
wishes will be fulfilled. What more ?
Ans. Well, if you ask a Muslim, he will say,
complete submission to God/Allah, almost same in case of a Christian. Their
belief stream is one has to behave like a slave of God, only this action can
lead one to the heaven.
Islam says, one may go to heaven, even if one has
very little faith on Prophet and Allah, where as Bible says, one will not go to
heaven, even if he has a very little doubt on God or Jesus.
So, as per these two great religions, worship means
bringing one and only one thought in mind that, one has to remove all doubt for
God/Allah, and aim to reach Heaven
But Vedic view is complete opposite. If you see the
way Hindus worship the Devatas, is the same way they worship their parents,
teachers and elders, and great personalities. In fact, Hindus openly accepts,
Parents, teachers are Devatas.
While worshiping at temples, they praise Devatas for
their deeds, and wish to get similar help in future. If you need, I can show
you thousand of such prayers. If one reads the Vedas, his doubt of worship will
evaporate. There is no submission to any Devata, rather in many places one will
find humans cursing Devatas.
My point is going of Hindus to temples or doing
havens etc can not be equated with what Muslims do as Namaz or Christians do as
prayers. This is special, the uniqueness of Hinduism.
Vedas contain many verses that say, these Devatas
are not different from God, yet the are not God, and at the same time Veda
says, all living and non living are not different from God, yet they are not
God.
Logic is simple, as my eyes are not different then
me, but only my eyes are not me, every thing around us and we too are not
different then God, yet not complete God.
Here veda says to realize this fact, and try to
reduce the gape between us and the God.
Vedas contain the ways to achieve this. And the path
is Yoga. Yoga does not mean the different postures to sit alone, although this
is one of the yogas. Yoga means to do in continuity and with full
concentration.
There are many kinds of yogas, but Bhagaban Krishna
in Srimad Bhagavat Gita, supported two of them, one acquiring knowledge, and
second to perform any activity.
According to Vedas, Heaven and Hell are not
permanent places after life, rather, short term rest places, that we get based
on our performance. If I am good, I will have painless place, or pain full
place i.e. suitable for criminals.
Bible and Koran says the place at heaven is
available only for the believers, if you have doubt on the messenger/son/book
etc. hell is for you. On the contrary, Veda says, God has unlimited characters,
some are reflected in water or fire etc. Purify your present characters with
the characters of fire or water etc, and you will be able to remove the gape
between you and God, whether you believe in God or not, does not make any
difference.
Vedas does not force some one to grasp the contents
and to perform word by word; there is no dress code, no particular way of
worship, no slavery of God. Only one thing that is required is performance,
performing your duties with ethics.
Q. You mean to say, even if I don’t read veda, or do
havens etc or go to temple, I will go to heaven only if I am not doing any sin.
Is it what you want to say ?
Ans. Yes sir, it does not matter, whether you level
yourself as a hindu or not, it does not matter whether you do havans etc or
not, it still does not matter you go to temple or not, you will go to heaven
only by your action, action being doing your duties in ethics.
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