Dear Rehan, The title of this thread, "The Concept of God in Hinduism and Islam" itself contains a flaw in the sense that Hinduism has more than one concept of God. Polytheism is just one of the concepts that Hindus hold. They also hold the concepts of monotheism, monism etc. Moreover, you started this thread by quoting Dr. Zakir Naik. I took up the thread to point out that Dr. Naik's contention that the Vedas call for believe in One God is misplaced, because the Vedas' acme teaching is Advaita or the oneness of existence.As a Hindu, I have multiple choices as to what to believe or even to not believe anything at all. As far as belief is concerned, no Hindu believes that only one path is correct and all others are wrong. Many Hindus eventually take up one of the great many meditative processes indicated in Hinduism and seek to discover God in the depths of their own consciousness. As far as my personal beliefs are concerned, I believe that we and our circumstances are perfect, have always been perfect and will ever be perfect. This is because we are God. And by God I mean nothing other than Life. Yes, our life is what we are and not the form that our life has taken up. Life takes up forms in a game of hide-and-seek it plays, where it loses itself and tries to re-discover itself. I hope all readers of my comments will note that I am not trying to say that Islam is wrong and Advaita alone is right. I am only trying to point out that there are many paths available to man to believe/realize God and it is his individual choice which path he chooses. All paths eventually would lead to the truth as all rivers eventually lead to the ocean.
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Positive thinking is fine. But dividing thoughts into positive and negative would involve suppressing negative thoughts out of the picture and such thoughts, as you said, might lie in our sub-consciousness to lurk when we are off-guard. The japa-technique is based on the sound-silence technique, where though you say only, for example, Rama-Rama-Rama, there is from the beginning an imperceptible pause in the uttering of the Ramas. So it is actually sound-silence-sound-silence. As we go on, they say, the silence takes over and the silent still mind experiences a peace that surpasseth understanding. As Jesus said, "Be still and know that I am God."
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Very well put. We live in the present and we celebrate life spontaneously.
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You are right. Labelling would do us in. But if we remember we are not sinners but divine creatures, we are quite there.
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Wow! I see you are very advanced in your understanding. In short, as you would agree, it would be just watching without any judgement whatsoever. Then what remains is a life of awe! And a life of joy, without our differentiating what we are going through, right?
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I can see the forcefulness of the point you are making. That life is perfect is plain if we see that one thing leads to another (cause-effect continuum) and if we find a certain situation imperfect, it is only because we have disassociated it from its cause and passed our uni-dimensional judgement upon it. Therefore when we say something is wrong, we are being subjective. Being subjective is undoubtedly a perfect situation, but often our subjectiveness is the cause of our suffering. Suffering of course is not a perfect situation because it is brought about by our isolated judgement upon a situation. Why restrict ourselves to isolated judgements and miss out on the perfection we have inherited?
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