ebill, You appear to be certain that what you say is true. How do you know this is the Truth? Can you walk on water? Can you turn water to wine? Can you heal the sick? Can you materialize anywhere at will?
---In [email protected], <emptybill@...> wrote : Our Western notions about “God” emerge through the theological lens of Semitic Monotheism - Judism, Christianity, and Islam. That’s why we so casually pitch forth the term “God” rather than “the gods” – as our Greek and Roman ancestors once did. Any Semite god is fundamentally a tyrant in the Greek “polis” (city-state) sense of that term. This means a Semitic “God” is a monarch who at will exercises power in a ruthless and pitiless manner – as an oppressive, harsh, arbitrary person. Opposite this cruel despot steps forth the weeping Jesus – wounded in his “heart” by our iniquitous and malevolent self-will. Won’t you open your darkened, ego-obsessed soul to the bleeding Jesu and put his cross in place of your own wickedly God-Defying “I”? Of course, if you fail to replace your “You” with his “Him”, Jesu, like maniacal God, will then throw you into the hell-pit and to torture you with eternal fire! Finally, you can count on this unbearable, endless torment for as long as eternity lasts – all done just because He can. Opposite this monstrously Semite God-tyrant, is the concept of Ishvara in Patanjali’s Yoga. The term Ishvara means ruler, owner, master. Patanjali’s Ishvara is a specific and different (viseša) purusha never possessing afflictions, the results of karmic acts or deposits of habitual tendencies. As such, Ishvara was never considered a creator in the Semite sense of an extra-cosmic “bringer into being” and ruler or overseer. Apparently, Patanjali included the concept of Ishvara because yogins bent upon samâdhi and liberation had direct experience with a cosmic intelligence that was accessible for receiving teachings and grace. Patanjali’s codification of the sound (shabda) of Ishvara and the means to its realization was Patanjali’s contribution to direct yogic realization through repetition of “pranava (om-kara) and contemplation of its meaning”. Contrary to this, while Buddhists believe in many puny “worldly” type devas, they deny a cosmic creator/ruler. The Dalai Lama likes to call it “the god concept”. In spite of this denial, Tantric Buddhists do indeed use the primal sound “om”, seeing it as a cosmic sound and as a conceptual construct for transcendence. All of this just shows how insular and self-involved the Semite-rooted concept of Judeo-Christo-Islamic “Godism” has become and just how widely it has infiltrated our historical and current thinking. This concept of the tyrant-God is not dead but is still highly alive - quickened by Muslim attempts at Islamic domination of Europe. If you are a meditator from the culture of the post-American revolution, you should consider the only fitting action against such a Semitic tyrant-king … assassinate Him!
