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Probably the best write up on the secrets of huge number of Hindu Gods, since past 1000 years !
In this respect the readers who want to know more about this may please refer to commentary on Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1-4-7 by Bhagwan Shankaracharya and also refer to Panchadasi.
The path told for the materialist nescient is the Devotional path. Devotion is emotional and baseless unless it is Jnanottar Bhakti. (devotion after God’s knowledge). One can’t expect to attain God by only devotion and without the Shruti knowledge. The first ten Upanishadas (Shruti) describe true God but caution the readers (seekers) that the description is not enough, one has to strive for the experience of God and that experience is gifted by nobody else but only GOD . There is no mention of one or many Gods by the name God, in the first ten commented Upanishadas. Whom the Upanishadas call the God or Gods can’t be described by the author here. Based on this knowledge of Upanishadas the mythological stories were written in the epics and the Puranas. These stories had double meaning. The nescient were seriously taking the stories of Gods to be true, and praying and worshiping God or Gods. They were told to do that. The seekers, for whom the meaning was different, were advised by the books of the sages to understand the symbolic language and understand the truth in the mythology. Like in the story of Ramayana, Rama is honest human being, Laxman is the directional mind, (Chitta), Hanuman is the Prana or living force, Sita is the world in thoughts, and Ravana is the bad thoughts. Every name of the place and the character in Ramayana has different and hidden meaning. All and everything in Ramayana is symbolic for those who want to understand God, universe and human being. It is a true story for the believers who want to make prayers and worships for their selfish ends. This kind of symbolism seems to be absent in the other mythological holy books in the world elsewhere. Those Holy books are also filled up with the amazing stories of Gods, Gods’ orders etc, but sans wisdom of symbolism. However, one thing is for sure that all the Holy Books in the world (including Puranas) containing the stories of Gods are farfetched and only the human made ideals and directives for the nescient people of the world. Those were necessary at that time, NOT today.
330 million Gods
No doubt there is God and God exists but not externally. When one understands this principle, how does it matter for him whether there is one God or thousands of Gods externally? Like when you ask a child to go to bed otherwise ghost will enter his bedroom; how does it matter whether there is one ghost or 33 million ghosts ? The purpose is same. You want the child to sleep early in the night. This is the ONLY common way of describing God in all the Hindu scriptures from Vedas- Puranas to the literature of the enlightened saints. In ancient scriptures one will find many different stories of creation of the universe, and also find many different stories of each God. Many a times these stories are contradictory to each other. The stories of the creation of the universe and the stories of God/Gods are like fiction stories. There could be a lot of difference in the writing of two different authors of the same story. The present author had faced a great tension from his grandson when he purchased a shovel machine toy of “Bob the Builder”. Within few hours of handing over the toy to him, he developed some snag into machine and wanted to contact “Bob the Builder” on phone. The grandson of the present author was continuously asking him the phone number and every time a new phone number was given to him to try whether “Bob the Builder” was on line. This was continued for many hours. God and the creation are like phone numbers of “Bob the Builder” gifted by scriptures to the nescient people. One can try any number as many times as one wants to try.
The question is “when there is no God at all present externally, how the figure of 330 million has been decided?”
330 million is called 33 Koti In Indian languages. KOTI has many meanings in Sanskrit, apart from a figure value of 100 million. Sanskrit meaning of Koti is extremity, countless, infinity, great concept (Kalpana) etc. and also a meaning that, “to choose a better word or a better metaphor”, if this word is used as verb. Here the best meaning of the KOTI is the concept or metaphor. The Indian scriptures/saints never meant 330 millions of God, by saying 33 Koti Gods. Indian nescient people made it a number. Here Koti is almost meaningless and may be taken as a “Kalpana” or concept. Most important is the figure 33. Let us see how the ancient seers arrive at the figure of 33. Before understanding 33, we must understand that :
1.There are 330 million Gods.
2.There are 33 Koti Gods
3.There is a concept of 33 Gods.
4.There is no external God.
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The path told for the materialist nescient is the Devotional path. Devotion is emotional and baseless unless it is Jnanottar Bhakti. (devotion after God’s knowledge). One can’t expect to attain God by only devotion and without the Shruti knowledge. The first ten Upanishadas (Shruti) describe true God but caution the readers (seekers) that the description is not enough, one has to strive for the experience of God and that experience is gifted by nobody else but only GOD . There is no mention of one or many Gods by the name God, in the first ten commented Upanishadas. Whom the Upanishadas call the God or Gods can’t be described by the author here. Based on this knowledge of Upanishadas the mythological stories were written in the epics and the Puranas. These stories had double meaning. The nescient were seriously taking the stories of Gods to be true, and praying and worshiping God or Gods. They were told to do that. The seekers, for whom the meaning was different, were advised by the books of the sages to understand the symbolic language and understand the truth in the mythology. Like in the story of Ramayana, Rama is honest human being, Laxman is the directional mind, (Chitta), Hanuman is the Prana or living force, Sita is the world in thoughts, and Ravana is the bad thoughts. Every name of the place and the character in Ramayana has different and hidden meaning. All and everything in Ramayana is symbolic for those who want to understand God, universe and human being. It is a true story for the believers who want to make prayers and worships for their selfish ends. This kind of symbolism seems to be absent in the other mythological holy books in the world elsewhere. Those Holy books are also filled up with the amazing stories of Gods, Gods’ orders etc, but sans wisdom of symbolism. However, one thing is for sure that all the Holy Books in the world (including Puranas) containing the stories of Gods are farfetched and only the human made ideals and directives for the nescient people of the world. Those were necessary at that time, NOT today.
330 million Gods
No doubt there is God and God exists but not externally. When one understands this principle, how does it matter for him whether there is one God or thousands of Gods externally? Like when you ask a child to go to bed otherwise ghost will enter his bedroom; how does it matter whether there is one ghost or 33 million ghosts ? The purpose is same. You want the child to sleep early in the night. This is the ONLY common way of describing God in all the Hindu scriptures from Vedas- Puranas to the literature of the enlightened saints. In ancient scriptures one will find many different stories of creation of the universe, and also find many different stories of each God. Many a times these stories are contradictory to each other. The stories of the creation of the universe and the stories of God/Gods are like fiction stories. There could be a lot of difference in the writing of two different authors of the same story. The present author had faced a great tension from his grandson when he purchased a shovel machine toy of “Bob the Builder”. Within few hours of handing over the toy to him, he developed some snag into machine and wanted to contact “Bob the Builder” on phone. The grandson of the present author was continuously asking him the phone number and every time a new phone number was given to him to try whether “Bob the Builder” was on line. This was continued for many hours. God and the creation are like phone numbers of “Bob the Builder” gifted by scriptures to the nescient people. One can try any number as many times as one wants to try.
The question is “when there is no God at all present externally, how the figure of 330 million has been decided?”
330 million is called 33 Koti In Indian languages. KOTI has many meanings in Sanskrit, apart from a figure value of 100 million. Sanskrit meaning of Koti is extremity, countless, infinity, great concept (Kalpana) etc. and also a meaning that, “to choose a better word or a better metaphor”, if this word is used as verb. Here the best meaning of the KOTI is the concept or metaphor. The Indian scriptures/saints never meant 330 millions of God, by saying 33 Koti Gods. Indian nescient people made it a number. Here Koti is almost meaningless and may be taken as a “Kalpana” or concept. Most important is the figure 33. Let us see how the ancient seers arrive at the figure of 33. Before understanding 33, we must understand that :
1.There are 330 million Gods.
2.There are 33 Koti Gods
3.There is a concept of 33 Gods.
4.There is no external God.
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