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Ekovasi sarva bhootandevaatma ekam roopa bahudha yah karot. Tanaatmastham yenapashyanti dheerah teshaam shaantih shaashwati netareshaam.
Only such persons can get peace, not others. God is One, whether He is known by this name or that, whether He is worshipped in this form or that. Whether He is visualized through this philosophy or that, matters little. There is no need to fight over these points. Have the firm belief that He is present in the entire human race. Right from an ant up to Brahma, He is present in every creature.
The inner soul is one and that is sat (truth), chit (consciousness), and aananda (bliss). The sun, moon and their creator, the entire universe is under Him. This is why He is called vasi, which means independent or self-governed. The entire world, the entire universe is under Him, but He is under none. He is self-born and He alone has expressed Himself in various forms.
Ekam sad viprah bahudaa badanti.
The truth is one, the learned people have expressed it in many ways. The one God has been expressed and epicted in many forms, therefore, He is the inner soul of all beings.
Ekam roopam bahudhaa yah karot! He who visualizes God as such gets permanent peace, not others.
Teshaam shaanti shaashwati netareshaam. This is not my viewpoint but the proclamation of the Veda.
Not only we, but also those who disagree with this philosophy of the Veda, accept the Veda as the oldest scripture. Western philosophers conjecture that the Veda was written 4000 years before Christ or 5000 years before Christ or 6000 years before Christ. This guess is not correct, however, we thank them for accepting the truth that the Veda is the oldest among the scriptures.
The Veda is not man-made. In the beginning of creation, God filled the inner souls of the ascetics with the inspiration of vedic knowledge, and then the ascetics started speaking spontaneously in the Sanskrit language. That is the Veda. The same Veda has descended to us. This is not new. This is the same Veda as it was in the beginning of creation. Just as a tape goes on reproducing the voice of the speaker whose lecture has been recorded, so the rishis reproduced the voice of God in the
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