Monday, December 26, 2011

THE ONE- GOD PERCEPTION IN HINDU SCRIPTURES

The following are the Vedic, Upanishadic and the other scriptural verses of Hindus that match the Abrahamic (Islamic,Jewish and Christian) assumption of One Godedness.
In fact Hindu Dharma is not constrained to “oneness” of the God and “Manyness” of  creatures;it is more about ONENESS CONSCIOUSNESS of the Creator and the creatures.This is the Vedic spirituality.

In the beginning there existed God, the source of light. He was the one Lord of all created beings. He upholds this earth and the heavens. He it is to whom we offer our prayers.



Brahmn, the Supreme Power is one without second. He is formless but produces various forms by His power-
SVETASVATOROPANISH  IV,III,17

We contemplate on the embodiment of the highest wisdom. We meditate upon the very first cause. May that Brahman (The Supreme Being), the infinite being, ever guide our understanding.
TAITTIRIYA ARANYKA X,1,29


We contemplate on the embodiment of the highest wisdom. We meditate upon the very First Cause (God).May that Brahman (God), the infinite Being, ever guide us.
TAITIRIYA ARANYAKA X.1,29.


You are the soul and the maker of the universe. You are the universal life; you are the author of this sport of this universe.                                                         MAITHRAYANYAUPANISHAD IV, 14

YOU are the father of the world, of the moving and non-moving. Greater than the greatest. YOU are the one object of worship. There is no equal to YOU in all the worlds. Who can excel YOU.O! YOU of incomparable power.
BAGAVADH GEETHA

You are the cause, the manifestation and the support of the universe. Yet you shine as the one absolute existence unaffected by the changes in things
RAMAYANA I,V,52



You verily are the absolute consciousness, the Atman and the master of all beings, the formless reality.                                      RAMAYANA VII,V,4.

I take refuge in the self- existent Being in whom the universe rests, from whom it has sprung, by whom it has been brought into being, who Himself constitutes it  and at the same time distinct from both cause and effect.                                                                                               BAGAVADH GEETHA                                

O Lord, You are of infallible will. You are the truth in the past, present and future. You are the origin of the entire creation, In you we take refuge.
BAGAVADHGEETHA                                     

You abide in all; You are all, you assume all forms. You are the origin of all. You are the self of all.
VISHNUPURANAM 1,12, 71

Salutations unto the Lord who is the light of the soul, the witness and spirit Supreme, who is beyond speech, no, even beyond thought and beyond consciousness.
BAGAVADH  GITHA                                 

Salutations to Him who is peaceful, yet terrific, who has no attributes but who acts as the support of all attributes.
BAGAVADHGEETHA                                     

You are incomprehensible, the first cause, the creator, the supreme deity and the supreme abode, the one beyond thought, the self of all, the self of the world
SKANDAPURANA



My lord have no lineage, nor birth, nor name, nor form. Neither have you any duty or locality. Still You are the Lord of all the worlds.
SKANDAPURANA IV Pt.1 Ch X 132



He is the self of the universe, all knowing, and all pervading, protector of the universe. He alone rules the world forever, and none else.
SVETASVATOROPANISHD VI,17,18


In Him all exists; from him they all originate. He has become all. He exists on every side. He is verily the all. Salutation to Him who is the soul of everything.
MAHABHARATA SHANTHIPARVA XL VII,83

Nothing is beyond your knowledge, but you are not perceived by any. Nothing is realized by you, yet you are not realized by any. Nothing is unrealized by you, yet you are not realized by any.
PANCHATANTRA JITAMATESTOTRA,1,5

You have no colour, no form, no weapons, and no particular abode. Yet you reveal yourself unto your devotees in a personal form.
 PANCHATANTRA JITAMATESTOTRA,1,6

You are Time. You are the Lord of Time, the origin of Time. You are beyond Time and yet you abide in Time.
BRAHMAVIVARTAPURANAM IV,XXX 45

You are without attributes and without forms and yet you possess attributes and forms.
Brahmavivarta Purana IV, XVIII, 36



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