EXPECTATIONS OF GOD
Is there expectation from Brahmam? NO. HE needs just Bhakti and
satisfied with water. Bg. 9.26
पत्रं पुष्पं फलं तोयं यो मे भक्त्या प्रयच्छति ।
तदहं भक्त्युपहृतमश्नामि प्रयतात्मन: ॥ २६ ॥
patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ
yo me bhaktyā prayacchati
tad ahaṁ bhakty-upahṛtam
aśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ
If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water,
I will accept it.
Bhakti is mentioned twice in this verse in order to declare more
emphatically that bhakti, or devotional service, is the only means to
approach Kṛṣṇa. No other condition, such as becoming a brāhmaṇa, a learned
scholar, a very rich man or a great philosopher, can induce Kṛṣṇa to accept
some offering. Without the basic principle of bhakti, nothing can induce
the Lord to agree to accept anything from anyone. Bhakti is never causal.
The process is eternal. It is direct action in service to the absolute
whole.
The idea that there can be and are plural perspectives for the same divine
or spiritual principle repeats in the Vedic texts. For example, other than
hymn 1.164 with this teaching,[30] the more ancient hymn 5.3 of the Rigveda
states:
You at your birth are Varuna, O Agni. When you are kindled, you are Mitra.
In you, O son of strength, all gods are centered. You are Indra to the
mortal who brings oblation. You are Aryaman, when you are regarded as
having the mysterious names of maidens, O Self-sustainer. — Rigveda
5.3.1-2, IT SGHOWS WHATEVER NAMES ARE ATTRIBUTED “HE” IS ONE BUT PEOPLE
CALL IT IN MANY DUTIES AND NAMES.
Related terms to henotheism are monolatrism and kathenotheism. The
latter term is an extension of "henotheism", — "one god at a time".
Henotheism refers to a pluralistic theology wherein different deities are
viewed to be of a unitary, equivalent divine essence. Some scholars prefer
the term monolatry to henotheism, to discuss religions where a single god
is central, but the existence or the position of other gods is not denied.
Another term related to henotheism is "equitheism", referring to the belief
that all gods are equal, since all are only a manifestation from the ONLY
ONE GOD.
An example of the questioning of the concept of God, in addition to
henotheistic hymns found therein, are in later portions of the Rigveda,
such as the Nasadiya Sukta. Hinduism calls the metaphysical absolute
concept Brahman, incorporating within it transcendence and immanence.
Different schools of thought interpret Brahman as either personal,
impersonal, or transpersonal. Ishwar Chandra Sharma describes it as
"Absolute Reality, beyond all dualities of existence and non-existence,
light and darkness, and of time, space and cause". In Hindu philosophy,
there are many different schools. Its non-theist traditions such as
Samkhya, early Nyaya, Mimamsa and many within Vedanta such as Advaita do
not posit the existence of an almighty, omnipotent, omniscient,
omnibenevolent God (monotheistic God), while its theistic traditions posit
a personal God left to the choice of the Hindu. The major schools of Hindu
philosophy explain morality and the nature of existence through the karma
and samsara doctrines, as in other Indian religions. CONCEPT OF GOD IS
UNDERSTOOD WITH THE EXPANSIVE KNOWLEDGE, FROM LIVING IN DVAITHAM TO
VISISHTADVAITHAM TO ADVAITHAM.
K RAJARAM IRS 31025
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