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If God Comes before you "What would you ask Him ?"

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If God Comes before you "What would you ask Him ?"

Really happened

This has happened when I was a young boy of 12!!


We were in a small town called Thiruvothiyur, in North Madras, Tamil Nadu

My father was a postmaster supporting a very big family of children, old aunt, and my mom was not working, only a house wife.


We had no electricity in our home in those days, only a candle light or lantern light.
We all used to sleep in the verandah, facing the street.

Those days during English month March, (Tamil month Masi) we used to see (from our veranda itself) ‘Theu Koothu’, a sort of village type street drama depicting various episodes from various avatars of Sriman Naryan performed in front of our house, in open air.

One night , while we were all watching the ‘ Narshima Avatar Theru koothu ‘ from our veranda , an old man looking like Naradha muni, came in front of our house, and asked our father a place to sit in the veranda and so that he can also watch the drama.

At first my father did not like any stranger sitting in Post office Veranda during night; but then Muni realizing this, cast his eyes on him, which made him to change his mind and allowed to sit on the veanda without disturbing anyone.

Then Narada Muni looking Muni, wanted some water, which my old aunt gave him; my aunt asked him about his Poorvigam place etc,



The Narada muni told her, that he is from Vaikuntam, name is Narada, just wanted to see Narashima Avatar episode and after that he will go away to Vaikuntam.

My mother and aunt got suspicious about him, and did not believe him in anyway. They wanted him to prove himself.

Then Narada Muni told every one’s name in the family.


Even this did not satisfy my aunt and my mother.

In the meantime the final scene was about to come in There Koothu, so everyone kept quite!!




Do you believe this, I know, you are not;

Even if God appears before us, we may not even recognize Him.


If God comes before you what you will ask Him.webp


Picture : FB
 
God is within each one of us and not separately outside of us anywhere. Because of ignorance cultivated (deliberately?) by religions, people try to see their god/s in temples, churches, mosques and other "places of worship". That is the sad lot of humanity.

Hence God can come before you only in the form of another human or another living being. But most of us will not recognise god. Nevertheless many among us will claim that they are striving for brahmajnaana and what not ;) LOL

திருமந்திரம் (tirumantiram) of திருமூலர் (tirumūlar) has put it very clearly as under:

உள்ளம் பெருங்கோயில் ஊனுடம்பு ஆலயம்
வள்ளல் பிரானுக்கு வாய் கோபுரவாசல்
தெள்ளத்தெளிந்தார்க்கு ஜீவன் சிவலிங்கம்
கள்ளப்புலனைந்தும் காணா மணிவிளக்கே
 
Forget about what we would ask God, the first question is "how do we know that he/she/it before us is God?"
 
......... தெள்ளத்தெளிந்தார்க்கு ஜீவன் சிவலிங்கம்......
You might be one of the தெள்ளத்தெளிந்தார், Sangom Sir!

But for other ignorant people like me, we NEED some form of God / Goddess to pray and trust! :pray2:

P.S: I don't like to visit very crowded temples but prayer is in my daily routine in my poojA room! :)
 
You might be one of the தெள்ளத்தெளிந்தார், Sangom Sir!

But for other ignorant people like me, we NEED some form of God / Goddess to pray and trust! :pray2:

P.S: I don't like to visit very crowded temples but prayer is in my daily routine in my poojA room! :)


Raji Madam

Did you believe my reel Sorry.. real life Experience?
 
If God appears before me, I will request God to prove Atheists first and than the Agnostic that "God Exist"!!!

:)
 
If God appears before me, I will request God to prove Atheists first and than the Agnostic that "God Exist"!!!

:)
hi ravi

very nice..cool down...........even thses atheists/agnostics think abt GOD more than theists...so dont worry....hiranyakshan think

abt sriman narayana more than Prahlada.....so GOD will come first for them...they know GOD exists....just they want to

pretend and show to others that GOD NEVER EXISTS....
 
If God as in Saguna Brahman comes in front of me..I wont ask anything.His Darshan is more that enough for me and the purpose of my life has been already served.
 
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If God appears before me, I will request God to prove Atheists first and than the Agnostic that "God Exist"!!!

:)


You know what God will tell you?

He will say "The agnostics and atheist think about Me more than you do"LOL!


I remember reading a story where a sage gives Uttara the wife of Abhimanyu a magic mirror which shows us the face of the person who thinks of us the most.

So Uttara looked into it and and saw the face of Abhimanyu cos he thinks of her all the time.

Then Lord Krishna decided to look into the mirror..

Yudhisthira and Arjuna were getting all puffed up cos they assumed that Lord Krishna would see their images in the mirror but when Lord Krishna looked into the mirror He saw Sakuni's face.

Yudhisthira and Arjuna were shocked and then Lord Krishna told them that Sakuni sits and plots how to bring Krishna down and concentrates fully on Krishna.


So my dear Ravi..you see for all you know when you tell God to prove Atheists first and then the Agnostic that "God Exist"!!!


God might just tell you 'Love all my dear boy...differentiate not for I am in you as well in everyone else"
 
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I agree with Sangomji's view to an extent. I too believe in nirguna God only. So "God" is not going to appear, it might only be a Godman and I do not trust them.
 
If God as in Saguna Brahman comes in front of me..I wont ask anything.His Darshan is more that enough for me and the purpose of my life has been already served.

If NG is indeed everywhere, and is the only one, then are we also not NG. In which case, the meaning of the sentence "...and the purpose of my life has been already served..." seems somehow lost.
 
If God appears before me, I will request God to prove Atheists first and than the Agnostic that "God Exist"!!!

:)

My dear Ravi,

My view about God is that there is no God in human-like form or in curious & impossible forms - such as there are in the hindu pantheon - and that all those who believe in such god existing in stone & other idols, paintings, drawings, photos, special artifacts like sphatikam, salagramam, rudraksham, tulasi mani etc., etc., are all false beliefs engendered by religion. God lives within all living beings including the most poisonous snake, the most harmless doe etc., and if at all God has to appear before anyone, then God has to be in the form of any one of these living beings.

But there is no harm in people "believing" in anything - including belief in godmen etc. - since the process of this jagat is such that it will sustain all kinds of beliefs and each such belief will, in its turn, lead to its own particular karmaphalas and thus give rise to many more living entities. That cycle of "samsaara" will go on like a proverbial juggernaut!!

So, you see God has to appear before me with 5,6, or innumerable heads, limbs and also sport peculiar features such as vinayaka, narasimha, lakshmivaraha, ardhanarisvara, kali, chamundi, pratyangira, etc., in order for me to believe that whatever the hindu religion teaches is true and not bunkum.
 


My dear Ravi,

My view about God is that there is no God in human-like form or in curious & impossible forms - such as there are in the hindu pantheon - and that all those who believe in such god existing in stone & other idols, paintings, drawings, photos, special artifacts like sphatikam, salagramam, rudraksham, tulasi mani etc., etc., are all false beliefs engendered by religion. God lives within all living beings including the most poisonous snake, the most harmless doe etc., and if at all God has to appear before anyone, then God has to be in the form of any one of these living beings.

But there is no harm in people "believing" in anything - including belief in godmen etc. - since the process of this jagat is such that it will sustain all kinds of beliefs and each such belief will, in its turn, lead to its own particular karmaphalas and thus give rise to many more living entities. That cycle of "samsaara" will go on like a proverbial juggernaut!!

So, you see God has to appear before me with 5,6, or innumerable heads, limbs and also sport peculiar features such as vinayaka, narasimha, lakshmivaraha, ardhanarisvara, kali, chamundi, pratyangira, etc., in order for me to believe that whatever the hindu religion teaches is true and not bunkum.


:lol:

As long as Humans carry "Ahankaaram" in what's-so-ever manner with all their senses, Humans will not even be able to experience even the feel of some spiritual entity around them.

What I feel is, as long as humans could revere this jagat and all the species dwelling in this jagat as that of the creation/part and parcel of the supreme being and everything has a purpose, meaning, importance and that everything is under the influence of energies beyond understanding of rational brain, Humans would be carrying the belief in a Supreme Entity/God and would not be desperate to visualize the Supreme entity in a desired form with one's naked eyes to reassure one's belief in the Supreme Being.

 
:lol:

As long as Humans carry "Ahankaaram" in what's-so-ever manner with all their senses, Humans will not even be able to experience even the feel of some spiritual entity around them.

What I feel is, as long as humans could revere this jagat and all the species dwelling in this jagat as that of the creation/part and parcel of the supreme being and everything has a purpose, meaning, importance and that everything is under the influence of energies beyond understanding of rational brain, Humans would be carrying the belief in a Supreme Entity/God and would not be desperate to visualize the Supreme entity in a desired form with one's naked eyes to reassure one's belief in the Supreme Being.


I think you are subtly changing the topic here. Nobody here, even the OP, was 'desperate' to see God with his naked eyes. And "ahamkaaram" or the sense of "I" is what drives the whole jagat. For example, no one will calmly allow his hand or legs to be cut off thinking that the hand/leg is not his/her. Similarly no one will patiently bear acute pain because he/she has no "ahamkaaram". But it will be feasible to understand that a certain "power" is dwelling everyone as otherwise we will only be seeing corpses all around.

The point here is also not about a power or influence, nor even about a Supreme Entity/God, but about the possibility or otherwise of that Supreme Entity/God being one of the myriad funny and unnatural concepts which are there in the hindu pantheon.

In the Valmiki Ramayana itself, Lakshmana advises Rama that a golden deer of the type seen by Sita was not natural and so it must be the magic of some raakshasa. That I think shows that even in Valmiki's times people were not so gullible as they are today. We must really appreciate the ability of our hindu myth-creators for their ability to sway a whole nation's belief in such impossible and unnatural "gods".
 
Narada did NOT appear before you P J Sir!

That guy was a real reel master!! :drama:

Raji Madam


Are you referring me as Reel Guy? or That Narada Muni?


Neither of us, It really happened, and Narada Muni also came.. If you promise you believe me, then i can narrate the rest of the Story!!!
 
Ravi Sir,

In my view, God has to be experienced. Ignore the athiest. This article comes to my mind on expereing God, which I would like to share here.

God cannot be understood by delving into heavy tones. It is an expereince that comes with time, and for us to have the joy of experiencing God, we must first have hearts that are ready to receive him.

Listening to religious discourses, reading religious literature and spending our time with the virtuous are all ways of preparing our mind and hearts to experience the bliss that comes from God realisation.

However, we wrongly assume that once we have acquired formal education through colleges and universities, we are ready to talk about God. For instance, a newspaper may carry materorological predictions. The forecast for the day may say that rains are expected. Now if we want to expereince the rains, and know what it feels like to get wet in the rain, we must actually wait for it to rain and then go out in the rain.

Can we expereince what it means like to get wet in the rain, by sqeezing the paper that carries the prediction about rainfall? In the same way, we can expereince God only through believing Him.

God is not impressed by a person's scholarship. It is bakthi, the belief!!

Most cannot think about anything without a mental image, like can one live without breathing. By the law of Assocation, the material image calls up the mental idea and vice versa. This is why an Hindu uses a external symbol, mind steadfastly fixed on the Being to whom he prays. After all, how much does omnipresence mean to most of the world?

 
Good day.


With regards.
 
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:lol:

As long as Humans carry "Ahankaaram" in what's-so-ever manner with all their senses, Humans will not even be able to experience even the feel of some spiritual entity around them.

What I feel is, as long as humans could revere this jagat and all the species dwelling in this jagat as that of the creation/part and parcel of the supreme being and everything has a purpose, meaning, importance and that everything is under the influence of energies beyond understanding of rational brain, Humans would be carrying the belief in a Supreme Entity/God and would not be desperate to visualize the Supreme entity in a desired form with one's naked eyes to reassure one's belief in the Supreme Being.

hi ravi,

we had already a MEGA THREAD ABOUT GOD EXISTS...... so dont try to open again...LOL
 
............ It really happened, and Narada Muni also came.. If you promise you believe me, then i can narrate the rest of the Story!!!
What P J Sir! Why should I believe you when you say it is a story? You are a good story teller.

Please continue the story, without bothering about my belief in appearance of Narada Muni! :cool:
 
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