Originally posted by ua41
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Vish, this lesson 2 post draws a lot of parallelisms with pantheism (and a lot of overlapping with general reincarnation ideals). Care to explain why you view this variation as an absolute truth?
Let me rephrase- if we could take the substance of this spiritual con ...[text shortened]... ng distorted through personal twists on it and all the other biases that get attached with it.
Thank you or the question, .....pantheism is generally not understood properly, and the Vedic view is that God is first cause, and through gods different variegated energies, everything is manifested.
Pantheism means the worship of all Gods sometimes, but generally means to worship the material creation as God, and not recognize the Supreme Lord, but the Vedic teaching is that the First Cause is a Transcendental Person, and that everything in existence, including our very selves, is manifested through the inconceivable creative potency Of God.
This material creation of false ego, intelligence, mind, ether, fire, air, water and earth is nothing but different multifarious energies of the supreme Personality of Godhead, made manifest though Gods Will.....and the living entities (souls) are taking birth in different bodies, made of this material energy, according to their desires and their individual karma.
Everything in existence is made of energy, and this energy is emanating from the Supreme Personality Of Godhead, and when the energy becomes manifest, the Lord in his Vishnu form enters into every atom......so the conclusion is everything is God directly and indirectly, just like the sun rays are not the sun....but the sun-rays are the sun..
I present Vedanta (Vishva style), but the teachings are never changed. ( and this is the first time I have done this ) so i need to improve my style, and i am not distorting anything, but I am just being very blunt and direct (straight to the point and in your face)
Vedanta is not Hindu, and the word Hindu will not be found in the Vedanta teachings, but I think you are referring to Demigod worship, which the Hindus perform, and Vedanta explains Demigod worship, but does not subscribe to it.