ARE THE HINDUS IDOL-WORSHIPPERS?
Yes they are, and no,they are not!
‘Yes’ because they depend the idols to
awaken their divinity,and ‘no’ because ,they don’t worship the idols as God.
If we scrutinize the spiritual evolution
of the Hindus, we may see that no human race on earth did ever engage in the study
of God as the Hindus did,so it is ludicrous to state that Hindus came to the
conclusion after much deliberation that God resides in CARVED STONES.On
contrary the ancient Hindus boldly declared that the God is not apart from the
self;Tatvamasi.How could the Hindu who trace the root of divinity to his
innerself bluntly transform the supreme
divinity to a stone?
An idol ,for a Hindu, is nothing but the
instrumentalization of the divinity already veiled in him;it is divinity
first,idols second and not vice versa as the ignorant non-Hindus put.The people
whose hearts are hard alone would cry that Hindus worship the idols as gods.A
Hindu knows that music is within him and not in the musical instrumment, yet an
instrument is influential in expressing the music within himself.Similarly, he
is aware that divinity is not in the idol but with in himself. The destruction
of musical instrument is not the death of music nor the idols death of the God.
HINDU’S GOD CONSCIOUNESS VS BIBLICAL
JEALOUS GOD
When we look closely at
the Hindu spiritual modus operandi,we can realize that Hinduism is not all about mere ‘One God
worship’: it is more about God
realization which is attained through the knowledge of the self-Atma
Vidhya.The Vedic concept of the
“Absolute Being ” cannot be equated with “the jealous Christian God or the sky
sitting-Dictator God of Muslims”.This marks the fundmental differences between
Hinduism and Abrahamic traditions. Hindu’s “Absolute Being” is all inclusive
unlike the ‘authoritarian God’ of the Abrahamics who reject entire divinity of
the rest as invented falsehood.
In the tradition of Vedic-spiritual
realization, an idol is only an optional spiritual tool whereas in the
aggressive religious tradition an idol is a ravaging threat to the ‘dictatorial
holiness’.
THE ABRAHAMIC FEAR OF IDOLS
When the Hindus treated
the idols as a use and throw spiritual device,the Abrahamics feared them as the scheme of satan in order to distance
man from the God. In the Hindu traditinon where God is searched inwardly,an
‘external idol’ functions as a mere catalyst for the seeker’s spiritual
progress whereas the seekers of an external-God would find the external-idol a
threat to their belief system. We read in the Bible (Exodus 34:14) that the God is a jealous God who would despise his
creation for challanging his supermacy with any alternate submission of
theology.
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5 comments:
Idol Worship
Statue or photo is inert object. Form carved in stone or painted on paper is also an imaginary form and not even a direct photo. The statues and photos are only models representing the concept, which is knowledge. The form of statues and photos is mainly human form, which represents the concept that the Lord always comes to this world in human form as said in Gita (Manusheem Tanu Masritam…). Please remember, Gita did not tell that Lord would come in any other form.
Forms of fish, tortoise etc., were temporarily to kill the demons and nobody worshipped such forms during their time. But Rama, Krishna etc were the human forms worshipped by several devotees like Hanuman and Gopikas. Lord will come in every human generation; otherwise, He becomes partial to a particular generation. If necessary Lord can come whenever there is necessity as said in Gita (Yadaa yadaahi…).
Once this concept is realized, there is no need of temple and statue for you. You should go from school to college and then to university. This does not mean that when you leave the school, the school should be destroyed. School must exist for future batches. Therefore for you, statue and photo are not necessary and this does not mean that statues, photos and temples should be broken. They should be protected and must be respected as models of divine knowledge for future ignorant devotees. Some devotees cannot accept human form, which is before their eyes as said in Veda (Pratyaksha dvishah).
For such devotees statues and photos are necessary for meditation since they are at school level.Statues and photos are useful for the meditation of such limited minds as said in Sastra(Pratima svalpa buddhinam).Veda says that the Lord does not exist in the inert objects (Natasya pratima, Nedamtat), but says that the inert objects can stand as models representing the Lord (Adityam brahmeti).So seeing and meditation upon the statues and photos are correct in the case of ignorant devotees.
Thank you for the comment
Have you read Bible properly? Bible ispart history part allegory and part metaphor. Reading Bible literally leads to all these misconceptions.
Jealous in this context is the extent of God's Love.
Love endures forever.
Have you read Bible properly? Bible ispart history part allegory and part metaphor. Reading Bible literally leads to all these misconceptions.
Jealous in this context is the extent of God's Love.
Love endures forever.
You are just rying to defend Idol worship.It is because your parents ,teachers,gurus some books told you and you have been conditioned in that thinking. Why not teach little ones God does not live in idols but lives in every fellow humans and the environment we live in. Caste system and idols are primitive in this modern world.
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