The Truth

Author(s): O P Jain
Publisher: Veer Nirvan Granth Prakashan Samiti

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GOD
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a simple indivisible substance (namely an electron) can exist or function separately. All portions function together as one unit. But this is not the case with souls, which are seen to be functioning differently from each other. Thus all souls are not the limbs of a single indivisible body of God.
The most significant name of God is “I am". This is common to Hinduism, Zorostrianism, Judaism and Christianity.
Isavas ya-Upanishad (Verse 16) means “That yonder person who dwells in Asu (Life) is known by the name of Aham, I (i. e., the Supreme), and Asmi, 'I am' (the only standard of existence).
in the Hormuzd Yasht, it is recorded :
Then spake Zarathushtra :.Tell me thou, O pure Ahuramazda the name which is the greatest, hest, fairest and which is the most efficacious for prayer.
Thus answered Ahurmazda : My first name is Ahmi (I am), and my twentieth is Ahmi Yad Ahmi Mazdao (i am that I am Mazda)”-Haug’s essays on the Parsi", P. 195.
The Book of Exodus in Old Testament records the following: “And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, the God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say unto me, what is his name? What shall I say unto them ?
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And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM : and he said thus 'shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM has sent me unto you.” (Exodus iii. 13—14).
Jesus also refers to I AM, when he says “Before Abraham was I AM” (John VIII, 58).
Do you now perceive the nature of Divinity ? His name is “I AM”, a most appropriate descriptive appellation of Life or being which truly it is. I do not think it is possible to find a better expression than “I AM" as a name for life.