SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

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God
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THE NATUKE OF THE DIVINE
PEKSONALITY.
Satyam Jnanam Anantam Brahma. Tait. Up. ii. i
Bliss is Brahman. Tait. Up.
iii. 6.
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There is one Rudra only, they do not allow a second who
rules all the words by his powers.
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God is Love.
Atharva Siras.
We begin where we left off in our last ;
and in discussing
the nature of Saguna and Nirguna God, we will discuss the
article of the Rev. Father Bartoli on God, a Personal Being
which appeared in our last two issues, and the Editorial God
and the Brahman of the BrahmavUdin of i6th ultimo, and
the lecture of Svami Vivekananda, published in the last Novem
ber number of the same magazine. These two parties occupy
positions which seem almost distant as the poles, and altogether
irreconcilable. The Rev. Father asks, Why this mockery ?
Say with the fool that there is no God : that the existence of
God is a sham, a bubble, a false show, a cheat, a day dream, a
chimera: because an Impersonal God is all this. The learned
Svami on the other hand says The monistic theory has this
merit that it is the nearest to a demonstrable truth in theology
we can get. The idea that the Impersonal Being is in nature,
and that nature is the evolution of that Impersonal, is
the nearest
that we can get to any truth that is demonstrable, and every
conception of God which is partial and little and Personal is
comparatively not rational." In the editorial note on God ar.d
Brahman, a novel and a very presumptuous and misleading
distinction in the use of the words God and Brahman
is attempted, and the article concludes by saying that the
worship of God, in all truth and in all love will never
Jead one to Moksha.
is for such, and the Brahman