Posted on: 09 Jun 2021
1. Did God create time or did the creation of God happen over time?
[A question from an online discussion group brought to Swami by Śrī Anil.]
Swami replied: The concept of time is the fourth coordinate of space resulting in the four-dimensional space-time. Time can be expressed in terms of distance and this is also the basic concept behind the time machine.
2. Does God guide people via different religious paths since one religion cannot fit all?
[A question from an online discussion group brought to Swami by Śrī Anil.]
Swami replied: The syllabus of all religions is one and the same. Only the external cultures are different. These external cultures are like the different media of instruction (languages) in which the same syllabus is taught in different schools. Similarly, the unimaginable God is one, but the external imaginable media into which He has entered and merged are many.
3. Why should Christians believe in the Holy Trinity since it is a concept invented by clerics long after Jesus’s passing?
[A question from an online discussion group brought to Swami by Śrī Anil.]
Swami replied: The unimaginable God (Holy Spirit), the Energetic Incarnation of God (Father) and the Human Incarnation of God (Son) constitute the trinity in spiritual knowledge and is universally valid.
4. Will Jesus soon return to Earth proving the Bible true?
[A question from an online discussion group brought to Swami by Śrī Anil.]
Swami replied: Jesus has already returned to earth several times by now. He is even present on earth today! Jesus does not mean the external name and form. It means the internal unimaginable God, who exists in the energetic medium in the upper world as the Father of heaven and who repeatedly incarnates in human form on earth.
5. Does God forgive lack of belief?
[A question from an online discussion group brought to Swami by Śrī Anil.]
Swami replied: If one believes in ethics in worldly life, that is sufficient for God, even if one is a non-believer of God.
6. When Christianity states that Jesus is God and Islam states that Allah is God, how can I find which of them is true?
[A question from an online discussion group brought to Swami by Śrī Anil.]
Swami replied: Both religions are true. Allah means the unimaginable God or the Father of heaven, who is the first Energetic Incarnation of the unimaginable God. Jesus is the Human Incarnation. The Father of heaven containing the merged unimaginable God further merged with Jesus. So, do not worry about the external names and forms. Concentrate on the internal truth.
7. How are the Vedas, the Bible and the Quran similar?
[A question from an online discussion group brought to Swami by Śrī Anil.]
Swami replied: These three scriptures only differ externally. The spiritual knowledge in them is one and same. The external cultural differences between them are like the different media of instruction (languages) of different schools and the common spiritual knowledge is the common curriculum.