Thursday, February 12, 2009

Unacceptability of Universal God: Gita and God 0008

Responding to Critique of Gita 0001 to 0007

There are at least four different perspectives to criticizing Gita as expressed in Gita 0001 to 0007 (call this SenGita)
The first is from the perspective of the experts and devotees of Gita. They would find SenGita far removed from the Real Gita they know of, distorted and misleading, casual and simplistic and even outrageous in the contention that Gita did not preach any religion or practicing Yoga to Mankind.
The second perspective is of the seekers of scientific proof of anything about God whether in Gita or in SenGita or anywhere else. They would contend that concept of SenGita is nebulous, devoid of adequate proof of existence of God enunciated in SenGita and that the entire Sengita or the original or authentic versions of Gita is nothing but glib talk.
The third perspective is of the believers of God defined differently from SenGita and particularly those who believe in personal God. They would find the concept of God both abstract and nebulous and something that cannot have any operational significance in terms of worshipping or praying or obtaining blessings from God – the almighty.
The fourth perspective is that of the believers in Man as an intelligent being with a meaningful purpose and freedom to change the world and the society as contrasted to SenGupta’s concept of each human as a chance occurrence of a phenomenon of particular set of properties, tendencies, inclinations that by definition has no free will or independence to decide. To them a fatalistic concept of man as a transient toy that acts only as per the properties imparted into each specific toy as elaborated in SenGita is devoid of any meaning and simply unacceptable.

All these criticisms are valid insofar as they easily are explainable by the concept of God and Human being elaborated in SenGita. Criticisms are nothing but responses that each human being as a particular phenomenon of properties, tendencies and inclinations imparted by the Gunas in the process of manifestation of God.. The same is equally true of Sengita: it is a chance occurrence of such phenomenon of manifestation. God is as much inherent in SenGita as in the criticisms. But that is only one way of response to criticisms from an embodied existence by ignoring the criticisms. There is the more common human phenomenon of responding to criticisms by accepting a criticism or by demolishing or embarrassing a criticism by reasoning or feeling or biased/ blind beliefs. We can just do that now.

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