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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (13796)	10/24/2002 11:40:56 PM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

The Null-Void Argument...... >>Any belief system which posits a unique revelation of the divine to a particular group at a particular place at a particular time would seem ipso facto to fail any meaningful test of universality.>> ....is universally null and void. Everything is connected to everything!! Everything is connected to ONE (1)! ONE (1) End/Source. ONE (1) God. And an infinite number of spiritual causes manifest in an inifinite number of effects in natural/temporal domains. This applies to all individuals in all worlds within all universes. What could be simpler? Cheers!! Peace and God Bless! 119293!!

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (13796)	10/25/2002 12:31:47 AM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"but to imagine that God is only an Englishman smacks of the sort of hubris that leads only to the sort of religious intolerance which has caused so much sorrow throughout human history" If this is your understanding of what Adi Da is suggesting relative to himself, I have to say that this is TOTALLY a misconception on your part. Adi Da's Teaching is that there is NOTHING but God,with no exceptions. He describes the role of the Guru as the vehicle by which all beings are connected to their own inbuilt, implicit, inherent Godhood. In this process, he (and all other Gurus) are the SERVANTS of those they thus assist. Adi Da suggests that the Guru always manifests in the FORM of those being served. For example, he suggests, in serving Buffalos, the Guru appears in like form (as a Buffalo). I think you read his comments partially, from a doubting vantage point and see lots to offend you. Not at all uncommon and the regular point of view of the separated, individuated ego-I. Namaste! Jim