Wednesday, 19 September 2018

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You guessed it...today's the topic is God!


No No...I am not playing preacher... I am only the language teacher remember?


In Sanskrit to be honest there is no actual default word for God.


Sounds strange isn't it when many think that Hinduism is polytheistic and worship many "Gods"...but that is not the actual picture.


The word for God in Sanskrit is more of a concept rather than just a word.


The words in Sanskrit denoting God range from the Impersonal, Beyond Comprehension and Beyond Words Brahman to the Personalized Ishwara.


So let's delve into linguistics cos as I said I ain't no preacher!


When God is denoted as the Supreme Being..He is denoted as ब्रह्मन् (brahman)..etymology for the word is  बृंहति (bRmahti) which means to become high, elevated,vast,expand..its a state that is not totally defined but much bigger than what the mind can comprehend and much beyond words.


Next is the concept of the Personalized God..
ईश्वरः(IshvaraH)..this is where we start to personalize God and give Him attributes which we can relate to because the human mind finds it very hard to go beyond an identification of any kind.


Hence we find various names given to God describing His function in the Universe summarized well as G.O.D (Generation, Organization and Dissolution)...its from this function ईश्वरः(IshvaraH) is denoted as the ब्रह्मा (brahMa for Generation), विष्णुः(viShnU for Organization) and शिवः(shiva for Dissolution)


A important point to note is the word देवः(devaH) does not really mean God.

It technically means the "shining ones" from the root word दिव्(div) even though at times you might find the word देवः (deva) being used very often to denote God.



But what ever said and done..no matter how we choose to relate to God we can agree He is always Number One for you and for me!




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