Hinduism: What Really Happenned in India (PDF) - Oration

Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan
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things, and in him all things hold together.18 And he is the head of the
body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the
dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.19 For God was
pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,20 and through him to
reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in
heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the corss
Rom 1: 20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities-his
eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being
understood from what has been made.
Eph. 1: 18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in
order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches
of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and his incomparably great
power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty
strength,20 which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead
and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,21 far above all
rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be
given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.22 And
God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over
everything for the church,23 which is his body, the fullness of him who
fills everything in every way.
Eph 4: 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow
up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.
From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting
ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
Church then is the redeemed Jivas who work together in unison to
recreate and reconcile the cosmos unto the Brahman, which forms the
mukthi for the cosmos as a whole. Then Brahman can rest and go into
blissful state till another fall occurs within the cosmos. This cosmos
consist not only the visible universe but all dimensions of existence.
Moksha, according to Ramanuja, is attaining to the likeness or similar
nature of Brahman. Moksha is the destruction ahamkara (ego or pride)
which is the cause of all suffering.