08 Sep 2022
O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,
[Ms. Thrylokya asked:- Please refer to Your answer for the 2nd question asked by Smt. Chadra chanda garu.
Islam does not agree to the concept of the human incarnation and even the concept of mediated God. At least in Nivrutti, how can You correlate Islam in Universal Spirituality?]
Swami replied:- Universal spirituality deals with the basic unity present in all religions neglecting the superficial differences in Pravrutti and Nivrutti. In Pravrutti also there are differences in all the religions including Islam, but, the basic unity is that God rewards justice and punishes injustice. In Nivrutti also, there is basic unity, which is the existence of God supporting justice and opposing injustice. Regarding the nature of God, there may be differences like unimaginable God, formless God, God with form, God in human form etc. But, the existence of God and the main purpose of God (supporting justice and punishing injustice) are the basic commonalities in all the religions. You shall start with the concept of two religions only, which are theism and atheism. All the religions are branches of theism only having the common triad:1) God exists, 2) God created heaven to reward the followers of justice and 3) God created hell to punish sinners supporting injustice. Hinduism consists all concepts of all religions existing in the world and it can be treated as a mini model of Universal Spirituality. In the macro model of Universal Spirituality, all the religions of the world are correlated based on the same mechanism existing in Hinduism. Ex:- In Hinduism (Micro model), we say that Shiva and Vishnu are basically one and the same. In the macro model we say that Shiva, Vishnu, Jehovah, Allah etc., are basically one and the same unimaginable God.
Islam says that Allah exists as the original unimaginable God. Islam also says that Allah appeared as light, which means that the original unimaginable God exists as unmediated God as well as mediated God (Here the medium is light. Light is seen by eyes and hence, light is with form. At the same time, light is having a simple boundary without any regular form like human form and hence, light is formless). This means that Islam accepts mediated God as well, who is formless as well as with form. If you take Hinduism, apart from the original unmediated unimaginable God, the mediated God exists as light (Yaksha, said in the Upanishat) as well as light with form (Datta or Iishvara). In these two points, you have similarity between Hinduism and Islam. If you take Christianity, God exists as 1) Father of Heaven called Jehovah similar to Datta or Iishvara. 2) Holy spirit similar to Yaksha in Hinduism and Allah seen as light in Islam. 3) Human incarnation like Krishna declaring Himself as Datta/Iishvara in Hinduism similar to Jesus declaring Himself as the truth (Jehovah the Father of Heaven) in Christianity, and this is similar to Prophet Mohammad declaring Himself as the human messenger of Allah. Krishna and Jesus declared themselves to be the original God, whereas Mohammad declared Himself as the beloved messenger of the original God. In the case of Jesus, He declared Himself as the original God, as well as the son of God, and the messenger of God as well, and this indicates the similar concepts of Hinduism, which are the monism of Shankara, the Qualified monism of Ramanuja and the Dualism of Madhva. Islam joined Hinduism and Christianity in one concept alone, which is the dualism treating Mohammad as the messenger of God. In fact, Mohammad is the human form of Allah only and can be treated as son of God (Ramanuja) or even more precisely as the human form of God (Shankara). Why did Mohammad Himself not accept these two concepts of Ramanuja and Shankara and kept Himself as the lowest messenger only? The reason is that His preceding prophet called Jesus was horribly crucified since He declared that He was the son of God and sometimes declared Himself as the original God. The public is always infected with ego based jealousy and can tolerate another human being as the separate messenger of God and cannot tolerate another human being as the son of God or God Himself. In order to exist in the tune of public without any danger to life, Mohammad confined Himself to the lowest position of a messenger, which will not kindle the ego based jealousy in the public. We must appreciate Mohammad for His sacrificial generosity for keeping Himself in the lowest position for the sake of the peaceful welfare of the world.
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