Message #24489

[mccoy]

Brock, the confusion is only apparently there, maybe we still are geared to reason in terms of Western categorizations.

The outstanding feature of hinduism is that the concept of God is so wide to encompass any possible metaphysical subset of the wider 'GOD' superset, if we want to reason in mathematical terms.

So once we state that God is an uncreated supernatural intelligence or power behind space and time, from there we have, in the hindu view, the amplest freedom. Hinduism is transcendentistic and immanentistic, is polytheistic and monotheistic, is deistic and is pheticistic, can even accomodate agnosticism.

I myself do not have clear all aspects of hindu divinities but that's a dispensable knowledge. God is the uncreated creator of universe and we can suit him, it, her, to our wildest imagination-derived model. If we have enough power of concentration and devotion God will oblige us and manifest in the subset we wish.

I cannot agree upon your latest sentence. We have been given the power to understand God, and fully realized masters understand him/her because they identified with him her in the objective, beyond-subjectivity metaphysical state of Samhadi.

Lesser states of intuitive or intellectual realization imply but a partial knowledge of God, bestowed by the power of deduction and intellectual reasoning.