Harmony of All Religions

SR No.: 007668
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmahans Maharaj, Veena Rani Howard
Publisher: USA Santmat Society of North America
Total Pages: 372
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 7 MB

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Sant Tulsidas also explains with an analogy:
The water of a river that has reached the ocean becomes one with the ocean and no longer has an identity of a river. The river has become part of the ocean.
Just as the water of the river find peace in union with the ocean, in the same manner when the soul unites with God, duality disappears, and the soul becomes tranquil. River is no longer a river it becomes ocean. When the soul (atman) is united with the One or God (Brahman) it is no longer an individual soul (Jivatma), but it is the Supreme Soul (Paramatma). This is the highest state of achievement and bliss: the state of complete unity of the Soul and God.
The word Aryans is translated as “Noble Ones." 2 This is also the opinion of Shri Maharishi Mehi as expressed by him in the introduction to his book, the Veda Darśan Yoga.
* Mantra is a hymn or sacred formula which is used to invoke the presence of various gods in the course of Vedic sacrifices and rituals. The hymns seek contentment, courage, devotion, energy, fearlessness, forgiveness, mercy, good life, happiness, health, intellect, long life, peace, progeny, purification, righteousness, success, victory, wealth, and wisdom.
4 "Truth (Reality) is one; the sages speak of it in various ways” is the famous axiom of the Rig Veda. 5 The Laws of Manu, 2/3
It is an earliest date assigned to the origins of the Vedas. However, a commonly found consensus dates the Vedas ca. 1500BCE.
The word rishi means a Seer, from dris, to see. He is the Mantra-Drashta, seer of Mantra or thought. The Rishis experienced the Truth and heard it. Therefore the Vedas are what are heard (Sruti). The Rishis did not compose them. They were the seers of thought which existed already. The Rishis are the discoverers not the inventors of the Vedas.
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