Can we discover for ourselves- what is a God?

Sajhauser, I am kind of surprised that that the story was for me.

I don't know who you are talking about. I truly hope that "narcessist", "egoist", is not me just because I initially didn't give much attention to your pointing out mistake to the programming problem I had. (And, to let you know, yeah the code what I again thought right didn't really work, but I think I made it work rearranging the logic, with the same fashion...I don't know).

I am emotionally weak person and small things make me sad; but, over the years I have learned not to be upset with small things from "some person." However, I am going to get hurt if you are implying me by saying all that, and if it is, please open up. I need your honesty.

I will wait your answer before replying your post with the story of some cruel man, and which was dedicated to me. :(

slack, you're misunderstanding ke :D. i'm not saying that you're narcessist. nonono. i'm just talking about a person who actually meditated vipassena, perhaps half of his life, yet doesn't know the virtues of life like: love and kindness. it seemed like he only knew how to be rude. so i meant to say that because of the person, i don't see the significance of meditation.

thanks for letting me know about the code..i'm relieved :P

Most of you guys seems to know so much about Hinduism and its way of life.
so can anyone help me to write the research paper.............please!
The theme woud be:
"How the universe or world originated according to Hinduism"
tell me the concepts behind hinduism......................
any person wants to write this paper for me. (Min 10 pages.)

much appreciated

Thanks Sajhauser, YOU relieved me! :p ;) :D

Well, why wouldn't that person be like communist Keshar Jung Rayemajhi, for instance? Rayemajhi claims himself a communist, but he is just a monkey of the king?!

What I can tell you from my own personal experience is Vipassana doesn't teach you to be rude and hateful. It teaches what you just said the virtues of life, love and kindness. It is the self that has to be determined to change oneself-be it the medium: meditation, self-analyzation or you give the name.

And, hey, it's totally up to you. I just like the teachings of Buddha. And, I found the meditation practical. That's about it.

Gotta go! :P :D

samir urf "hawaa kaa jhokaa"....... I like your reasonings. But, I see a big flaw in it. After all, it was 'people' who wrote the vedas, wasn't it?

And, those 'people' intellectually and interestingly defined 'brahmin'.

' it was 'people' who wrote the vedas'..........well yes, people wrote the 'Vedas', so what's wrong in it? 'Bible' and 'Quran' are also written by people. At least 'Vedas' are not written by a single individual.

I find it plausible as it doesn't describe 'God' as an individual or someone with supernatural powers. The basic difference between 'Gods' like Ram, Krishna, Jesus or Muhammad and the 'Brahman' of the 'Vedas n Upanishads' is that, 'Brahman' is a form of energy without any form / shape/ size or clear cut attributes from which basic elements like air / water / space etc. arise which are necessary for beginning of life forms. With time, living beings evolve from simple life form to complex forms, lastly into a human being after passing through 84 million 'joonis' / or species whatever u say. And since 'Brahman' is a form of eternal energy, it is within u and within anything that exists on earth. So u don't need to go searching for 'God' anywhere else. Just look into yourself, you'll meet 'God' the day u 'self actualise' and know ur true self.

And mind u, there's a lot difference between 'Brahman' of Vedas and the term 'Brahmin'. Brahmin in current day means a particular caste, which emerged in the later day 'Puranas' and has been retained by the current day 'Hinduism'. This entity is not the 'Brahman' mentioned in the 'Vedas' and 'Upanishads'.

The current day science has also proposed the 'big bang theory' about the creation of the Universe. According to it the Universe was created from something like a 'black hole' where there was nothing but some 'condensed energy' and even 'time' was not there. Universe started forming some 4.5 million years ago with a 'big bang or explosion' that occured in this energy source, and it is still expanding. But the expansion will cease at one point of time in future and everything will contract into the initial condensed energy, and then another cycle may start again. Its somewhat akin to the 'formation and destruction' of stars.

I find the 'Brahman' concept interesting as it is somewhat similar. The 'Brahman' also exists in 'mahashunya' or 'vast nothingness', just some physical energy with indescribable attributes. At that point, there is no other characteristics, neither day nor night or seasons or anything, not even 'time'. And this 'Brahman' expands gradually and 'Shristi' starts. At the end everything will be destroyed again and the whole cycle starts over. According to this philosophy, the current 'shrishti' (Unuverse) started forming 4.38 million years ago, and there have been multiple such cycles of creation and destructions since the beginning, with the total time being around 19 billion years !!! Quite strange no ?

My interpretation of god:

God is Hope, a guide, a figure and an image of perfect being; who we can learn something from.

Does he exist or does he not, that is for the indivisible mind to decide. As for me I do believe gods exist.

Religion is a guideline to improve you for a better life, make you a better person, civilized human being.