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Re: Eternal Individual Existence Is A Fact
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To: soc-religion-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: Eternal Individual Existence Is A Fact
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From: dchakrav@netserv.unmc.edu (Dhruba Chakravarti)
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Date: 19 Jan 1996 15:50:53 -0600
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Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
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Organization: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
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Savio (savio@cs.man.ac.uk) wrote:
: Also I'd like to see where in the Vedas the Supreme Personality of Godhead is
: actually designated to be Krishna.
: There is no harm in any of this, but one must put a perspective on things.
: Lest we have another, my god is better than your god argument.
: AKV
Dear Friend:
The RigVeda contain some of the earliest revelations. It deals with God
as Sat or Immanent Godhead (vishvatomukham...SBG). The Upanishads mainly
deal with Tat or Transcendent Godhead, when the Rishis wanted to use the
Purusha tattva of the Transcendent Godhead, they said Tat (He), sometimes
in neuter Tam (when God is described as One unmoving, It). Upanishads say
that from Asat (Tat) was derived Sat. In the SBG, Sri Krishna said that
He (God) is both Tat and Sat at the same time, He is Uttama or ParamAtmA.
The Scriptures thus trace the continuing cumulative understanding of
revelations of God, as described to us by various Seers and in the case
of the SBG, by God Himself.
It has been said that Param Brahma(Uttama Purusha) is chatuspAda, Tat is
three and Sat is one. Since God is one, there is no my God or your God,
such speculations are meaningless. The Vedas do not talk about Sri
Krishna, they instead focus on Aditya, and Vishnu is the name of Aditya
when He is the most luminous.
This is as I understand it, briefly what we have in the Scriptures.
With best regards,
Dhruba.
