Hindu Gods
Divine Life
Society Publication: - Devi
Mahatmya, Prounciation of Mantras, Hindu Gods by Swami Krishnananda
Visitor: Swamiji, someone with
a definite purpose of his own, in order to provoke me into an argument,
remarked, "Hinduism is nothing but one god fighting with another!" I
knew his mind and so refused to say anything. But what is the meaning of these
so-called wars between Vishnu and Brahma, for instance, when Lord Siva
vanquishes them both and quells their pride? Lord Siva establishes at the same
time that He is the Most Supreme! Is it because in such contexts the Manifested
God gets accretions of their level which is lower than that of the Supreme
Being? The Puranas and the Epics are full of such incidents of war among the
Gods.
Swamiji: The subject-object
opposition in time and space, the affirmation of the ego as superior to and
supreme over everything, causes the clash, no matter at what level. This clash
of the positive and the negative, both of which are inherent in everything
finite, produces a spark as a higher synthesis and is absorbed in the higher
synthesis. But this level of the present higher synthesis is, again, not the
highest. It is still only in the process of evolution into the next higher
synthesis. Hence this clash and this spark are repeated, and so is the
absorption of the spark into the next higher synthesis, from level to level.
This clash or ‘war’ between the gods – deities of the different levels – goes
on until the last higher synthesis is absorbed into the Absolute. This process
of the sparks getting absorbed thus is explained in the Puranas and the Epics
as one god warring with another and a third god conquering (absorbing) both
within Itself.
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Hindu Gods - Devi
Mahatmya, Prounciation of Mantras, Hindu Gods by Swami Krishnananda
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