Posted on: 20 Mar 2016
Padanamaskaram Swami, Please give Your responses to the following questions - Anil
1) Genesis 11:1-9
The Tower of Babel
1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward, [a] they found a plain in Shinar[b] and settled there.
Shri Swami replied: This indicates the universal religion and settlement indicates the eternal peace in the world. When two rivers meet, the joint line is uncertain creating confusion due to absence of clear certainty in the joining boundary. Similarly, when two religions are correlated, uncertain boundary of the joint brings disputes. Moving towards to East indicates the rise of sun, the sharp intellectual analysis in the spiritual knowledge that gradually becomes sharper and sharper like the sunlight, which alone can bring the correlation. In contrast, west indicates sunset leading to more and more darkness of ignorance that divides the religions for quarrels, which means blind following of the scripture containing several insertions made by selfish exploiters. The real divine scripture comes out of the fire test of analysis, losing all impure insertions with eternal true shinning. Then, you will find all such final divine scriptures of all religions as the same spiritual knowledge. All the different names disappears and only one name ‘God’ appears and this is one language and speech of any divine preacher in this world.
2) 3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
Shri Swami replied: This is in continuation of the above concept only. Stone is naturally formed like the available scripture passed on to us by the blind tradition. We should not build the palace of spiritual knowledge by such blind concepts passed on to us in a natural way without analysis. We should build the palace by bricks that were burnt in the fire of analysis and final conclusions are the baked bricks devoid of the logic-heat. Such spiritual knowledge alone can take you to the abode of God. Tar is stronger binding material than mortar (as per the assumption of public in that time). This means that the perfect logic can bind the filtered true concepts (bricks) in stronger way than blind faith that binds the blind statements (stones). Such unity of religions pleases God, who will give us a good name through full appreciation. If we follow the scriptures blindly without any analysis, we will be divided and move far from each other resulting in scattering throughout the world. God will not be happy if His children quarrel with each other and get scattered. He will be pleased only if His children get united and live with peace even though they may not worship Him. He does not like worship with quarrels. He likes the children to live united without quarrels even though they may not worship Him.
3) 5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
Shri Swami replied: The tower indicates the top most level of the spiritual knowledge of the universal religion built by enlightened spiritual scholars of the world. God came to the tower and told that if all speak the same language, which means that He should be addressed as God and not the same God to be spoken in different languages like Brahman (Hinduism), Jehovah (Christianity) and Allah (Islam). The different names of different languages bring split in the humanity and unity is broken. Unity can achieve anything even if it is impossible. Split will make even possible thing to become impossible. The Lord says that if you go down by falling from the topmost level, the confusion results due to different names of different languages bringing splits and emotions. In the state of emotional split, there will be no correlation to understand even the basic logic.
4) 8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Shri Swami replied: The divine palace of Universal Religion existed in the beginning of the creation. In course of time, this building was stopped due to different splits created by different languages. The development of different languages of different regions of the world was allowed by God, which is based on different cultures. Yet, the unity in diversity was maintained for a long time even after the creation. Without forgetting the unity of the Universal religion, the diversities were enjoyed according to different tastes. Foods may differ in taste from one region to the other, but the energy liberated from the digestion of different foods is one and the same. The first step was pure unity in the entire world with one name and one language spoken by the entire humanity in which there cannot be any split. This is one type of enjoyment. The second step is formation of different languages in different regions in the world and enjoyment of diversity of names of different languages keeping the unity of universal religion in the mind. In both these steps, unity is maintained without any split. Up to this the hand of God exists. After this, the hand of humanity comes into picture leading to total diversity forgetting the basic unity, which is the present chaos in the world. From this third step, we should raise ourselves to the second step to bring universal peace and unity in the entire humanity by establishing the unity of all religions through universal religion.
5) Swami, kindly enlightens us on the below incident mentioned in New Testament of bible.
[The Parable of the Tenants: Luke 20:9-19
9 He went on to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it to some farmers and went away for a long time. 10 At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 11 He sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed. 12 He sent still a third, and they wounded him and threw him out.
13 “Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my son, whom I love; perhaps they will respect him.’
14 “But when the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. ‘This is the heir,’ they said. ‘Let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ 15 So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
“What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16 He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.”
When the people heard this, they said, “God forbid!”
17 Jesus looked directly at them and asked, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written:
“‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?
18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”
19 The teachers of the law and the chief priests looked for a way to arrest him immediately, because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.]
Shri Swami replied: All this clearly means that God sent some messengers to the world, who are His loyal devoted servants. The people were not changed. The vineyard means the land of grapes indicating the whole world as the wealth of God. Grapes yield wine by which people forget the truth that they are only tenants of God’s property and not owners of anything in this world. The share of this worldly wealth that is to be sacrificed to God is forgotten and was enjoyed by themselves and their families only due to the intoxicating effect of wine. Wine indicates the worldly pleasures enjoyed in unjust way because one forgets justice due to attachment to worldly bonds and worldly pleasures denoted by wine. Since God is the absolute owner of this world, the share to be given to God can be donated to messengers or genuine devotees of God. This is the sacrifice of fruit of work to God as explained as Karmaphalatyaga in the Gita. Since the sacrifice to devotees is absent, the heir of God called ‘Son of God’ came down. Son of God means the human incarnation of God. Son means the created product, which is the external medium or the human being component. God is existing in that medium. The Veda says that son is a different name of the father only (Atmaa vai putranaamaasi). This Vedic statement is said in the context of God (Father) becoming human incarnation (Son of God) only. The Father is the energetic incarnation, who is irrelevant to the humanity and hence comes in the form of a human being, which is the human incarnation relevant to humanity. The Father contains unimaginable God in Him. Thus, there is no difference between human incarnation or son of God, energetic incarnation called as divine Father and the unimaginable God. They could not recognize God in the form of Jesus due to ego and jealousy towards co-human beings. They crucified Jesus. God wanted to destroy those sinners and bring good souls to the earth in their place. God’s anger was seen through disturbances in nature after crucifixion of Jesus. They realised their sin and got reformed expressing deep repentance. God did not give punishment since reformation is the aim of punishment. God’s address in this world is either human incarnation or genuine devotee of God.
The builders of Universal Religion rejected stones, which are blind traditional concepts that were propagated through old priests. Jesus analysed every concept of the scripture giving valid reasons and correct meanings, which were not liked by conservative priests. Since the main priests propagated such selfish blind concepts, they have become corner stones, which mean very important in the eyes of ignorant public. Such blind concepts are dangerous on both sides since both edges of stone can cut your head to give death. If you follow that concept, your soul is destroyed. If you preach that concept to others, such concept entering their minds will destroy their souls. Following and preaching wrong concepts in spiritual knowledge destroy yourself and your followers. Following wrong concept is falling on the stone. Preaching wrong concept is throwing the stone on others. Both are equally dangerous. This is the meaning of the statement of Jesus, who always analysed the old conservative concepts.