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Shri Datta Swami

Posted on: 24 Jun 2021

               

Will people pray from home instead of going to temples or churches or mosques on realizing the whole existence is Ishvara?

[Śrī Anil asked: Are footfalls important or the people following God 100% correctly? Will people pray from home instead of going to temples/churches/mosques on realizing this whole existence is Īśvara? Don't the scholars know Rig Veda 10.90, Jeremiah 23:24 & Quran 2:115?

Jeremiah 23:24 Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the LORD. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the LORD.

Quran 2:115: To Allāh belong the east and the west, so wherever you turn you are facing ˹towards˺ Allāh.1 Surely Allāh is All-Encompassing,2 All-Knowing.]

Swāmi replied:- “Whole existence is Īśvara” is misunderstood by several people. Mere existence can’t be something. When you utter the word ‘existence’, immediate question is “What is existing?”. If you don’t specify the thing, the word existence is meaningless. At least, you shall say that something is existing. Something means that which is unknown to you. But, somebody else may know it. But, when nobody knows it, you have to say that a thing unknown to all exists. What is the proof for such statement? The proof is a miracle, which is seen and experienced by all, yet, nobody understands it. The source of such miracle or unimaginable event is unimaginable God. His nature is not known but His existence is established (Astītyeva upalabdhavyaḥ— Veda).

Such unimaginable God is omniscient and omnipotent. People say that such God is omnipresent. In such case, every part of the world and every living being must be pure and holy. Hence, omnipresence of God is not true in physical sense but is true in the effective sense. King knows the news from every corner of his kingdom due to his power of information channels. He does not exist everywhere. Similarly, God knows everything in the creation due to His power of omnipotence without being present anywhere in this world. Yes, you are correct in saying that we can pray God from any place in the world. But, the surrounding atmosphere must be congenial to the concentration of the prayer. If you find every place in the world as congenial to your prayer, you can pray so. If you can pray like that, I am declaring that you are the climax devotee of God!

 
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