The Form of GOD - Comparative Religion Study - 5

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

What is the actual form of GOD. Bible says god created human in his own form.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him;male and female created he them. – Genesis 1 : 27

Even though there are many places in the bible where God never appeared to man in his own form but as a form of whirlwind, sound and echoes etc., Even in the New testament when disciples asked Jesus Christ “Can you show us the God, Your Father?” he replied

“He who sees me, Sees my father” John 12:45

It is not only because he believed his father existed in him, it is also because everyone cannot see the almighty with a naked eye. This is evident from the following verses where Jesus hesitated to say himself the GOD. 

“who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped”,Philippians 2:6

Christ was true he cannot be the God. But God can be in himself. God is a being who prevails everywhere. Christianity stresses the form of God in three kinds, one is the father, second the son and the third the holy spirit. In this the evident form is only the son. The other two are formless. But how could Christ who his father who is formless. That’s why he said “Those who see me, sees my father”. 

God prevails everywhere. In the universe as well as one’s innerself. The holy siddhas believed that searching an inner self of a living being is in search of God itself.

Hinduism has several forms of GOD. Brahman is the God in the highest sense: formless, infinite and eternal. As being formless, God is neither neither male nor female. God is beyond space and time, and it is changeless and it is the source of consciousness. Brahman cannot exist, as it is the existence it elf. Brahman is all knowing and it is knowledge itself.

Islam don’t have any form of GOD.  But neither of these religions have proof of eyewitness on how GOD would look like. Scholars always believe that there exists a supreme power which controls, sculpts the earthly life. But what is his form nobody knows.

Vedas very clearly define God as changeless, formless, ever-perfect and all capable at all times without requiring any further changes on temporary or permanent basis. Siddha Siva vaakkiyar talks about the form  of God

Uruvum alla veliyum alla onrai mevi ninrathalla
Maruvumalla kaatham alla matrathalla atrathalla
Periyathalla siriyathalla pesum aavi thaanum alla
Ariyathagi ninra nermai kaana vallare

He is not having any form, he is not only prevalent in the universe alone and also not only in the body alone. He is prevalent everywhere. He is not small or big. He don’t have end or beginning. If one can see this one ness then he is seeing GOD. – 74th song.

WE talk about thhhe God exists everywhere. Then think about the parallel thought that Jesus Christ taught about the prevalence of the Holy Spirit. He calls those who deny the holy spirit as sinners.  God Truly don’t have any form. He is endless. It can be seen in the following songs from  Siva vaakkiyar

Ellayatru ninra sothi aekamai erikkave
Valla poorana prakasa yoga bogamaagiye
Nallavinba mona saagarthile azhuthiye
Naadonaatha amirtham undu naanazhinthu ninra naal.

The living beings will get salvation when one understands the endless supreme one who is burning as light torch giving light to the living beings creting harmony in their innerself.

Aathiyillai anthamillai aana naalu vethamillai
Sothiyillai sollumillai sollirantha thooveli
Neethiyillai nesamillai nitchayapadathathum
Aathi kandu kondapin anjezhuthumillaiye.

There is no end or beginning for him and also he don’t belong to the four vedas. He is in the form of endless space prevailing beyond the universe. He is not any law or passion, for those who understand this he is only one beyond anything(beyond five letters “nama shivaya” is that five letters)

Think about a journey beyond the universe. If you are travelling outside the solar system you can be able to see millions and millions of metoers, comets, bigger planets, biggest galaxies etc., but what is there beyond all those things. VACUUM. Yes right. Vacuum. The whole story of life started from this vacuum. The creation of this universe starts from this vacuum. The vacuum is nothing. But it contains everything. Formlessness or Aroopam - That is the form of GOD . The word Roopam-Aroopam-Aparoopam is common in sanskrit. The form of God is Formless and it is the baiss for all forms of life that is the meaning.

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