COSMOLOGY OF HINDUISM

 

there is actually no such thing as Hinduism. Being Hindu is a way of life, not a religion

Being a Hindu does not mean having a particular belief system. Basically, the whole culture was oriented towards realizing one’s full potential. Whatever you did in this culture was Hindu. There is no particular god or ideology that you can call as the Hindu way of life. You can be a Hindu irrespective of whether you worship a man-god or a woman-god, whether you worship a cow or a tree. If you don't worship anything you can still be a Hindu.

Hindu was never an “ism”, and the attempt to organize it as a religion is still not successful because the Hindu way of life which is referred to as Sanatana Dharma or universal law is all-inclusive in nature and does not exclude anything.

In this culture, the only goal in human life is liberation or mukti. Liberation from the very process of life, from everything that you know as limitations and to go beyond thatThere is no belief system to the Hindu way of life. Someone believes in God, someone else can choose not to believe in God. Everybody can have their own way of worship and way to salvation. If there are five people in your family, each one can worship the God of their choice, or not worship anything, and still be a good Hindu. So you are a Hindu irrespective of what you believe or don't believe.

However, in western religions, there is only one dogma imposed universally in religion. Neuroscientifially, neuronal plasticity will be according to that training and they feel they are only right. Based on their training, they cannot find anything good in others and it is not their fault but the very construction of the brain is like that.

The essential purpose of God is to create reverence in a person. What you are reverential towards is not important. Being reverential is what is important. If you make reverence the quality of your life, then you become far more receptive to life. Life will happen to you in bigger ways. There is so much misunderstanding about these things because there is a certain dialectical ethos to the culture where we want to express everything in a story or in a song. But in a way, this whole culture referred to as Hindu is rooted in the spiritual ethos of each individual working toward ultimate liberation as the fundamental goal in life.

BRAHMA the creator has a lifespan - when he appears the Universe is projected into being and when he dies the Universe goes through a big crunch phase and returns to a singularity known as a BINDU. There is a dormancy period in which all the energy potential of the Universe remains latent. Then Brahma again is born and the cycle repeats itself.

The conflicts in the world have always been projected as good versus bad, but really, the conflict is always one man’s belief versus another man’s belief

That is the reason why we say “Namaste”. It means I see the sameEvery object has existence. There is no object which has no existence. The existence is the “Isness” of the object and that must be associated with the consciousness. This ‘existence-consciousness’ is nothing to do with our physical body which is a constantly mutating contraption in the constantly changing world. When we identify with the ‘existence-consciousness’ the bliss is experienced as there are no thoughts and objects there. Searching for God outside as another object can never be a true and fruitful exercise. It is a shame to be such a Hindu who looks out there for God. Every Jiva is indeed that creation which is consciousness. By dropping everything that mind creates, we reach the ultimate destination of ‘Consciousness-Existence-Bliss’. This is our true nature. If every Hindu understands this, the worship of an idol becomes an illusion and not real. ‘Atman’ present in me also in ‘you’ and I bow down to it. We are not different. Just as two electric bulbs have the same electricity, we share the same consciousness.