Wednesday, 12 October 2016

God / ईषिता / īṣitā / ईश्वर / īśvara.

If God Created everything, Who created God?
God / ईषिता / īṣitā / ईश्वर / īśvara.
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हु > जुहोति, ह्वे > (आ), आह्वयति > हूति, आहूत (बुलाया गया) > (to invoke) is the Sanskrit root of the English word 'Who' that Becomes 'Gothic' in old German. Just as ''north" becomes 'Nordic', 'forth' becomes 'ford', Gothic becomes 'God', But Vedika God has 2 forms. One is the Spiritual Cosmic entity आधिभौतिक / ādhibhautika That is prior to manifest bhautika. 'Agni' is the Prime 'God', ऋग्वेद / ṛgveda begins with. The idea / concept of creation, preservation and destruction is not there in Veda. The word 'Creation' comes from Sanskrit सृति / sṛti, कृति / kṛti . सृति / sṛti tells about forming / 'making into' (from something) while कृति / kṛti tells about effecting a change in something that is already सृष्ट / sṛṣṭa, is there at hand. 'Who' creates? Veda tells us 'What is' सत् / sat, only appears to undergo through, expression, play and dissolution / revert back to सत् / sat. And there is no one, no individual / agent of this whole action, who could be thought of to see this activity. But Manifest Existence happens at 3 levels > namely : आधिभौतिक, आधिदैविक, आध्यात्मिक ( ādhibhautika, ādhidaivika, ādhyātmika). But during all this, the existence of the 'one' who talks about the world could not be denied / refuted. Nether by logic, nor by experience or even 'reasoning'. This 'one' is the 'Ultimate Reality'. In simple terms, this is 'Consciousness' which is different from the 'consciousness' that is defined as 'mind' in the 'Psychology'. 'Psychology' talks about individual personal consciousness, but this 'personal-consciousness' is always in a flux, while The Supreme Consciousness is unchanging without division of 'the observed' and the ' the observer'. If we accepted the notion 'God created everything' then the question 'Who created God?' is the obvious logical consequence. And we inevitably fall into the groove of argumentum ad absurdum. That is how and why 'Intellect' / 'Thought' is an imperfect tool in explaining existential questions. More so is Psychology, Philosophy or Science. So Veda never insists for one / more than one 'God' in any form. At the same time Veda is not also atheist. Though Veda asserts : 'There is an Intelligence Principle' ईषिता / īṣitā which could be acceptable in different forms to people of different kinds of mental orientation. This ईषिता / īṣitā / ईश्वर / īśvara could be loosely translated into English as 'Governance'.
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