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The Almight, Gods and We, the Human Beings 1 The Almight, Gods and We, the Human beings Original Book entitled "Paramatma Devullu Manamu" was written in Telugu by: His Holiness Sri Sri Sri Tridandi Sriman Narayana Rangaramanuja Jeeyar Swami Ji, Kakinada This book is a translation into English by: Srimaan S. S. Charyulu, Moulali, Secunderabad and Srimaan S.K.V. Ramacharyulu, Delhi. 2 Table of Contents The Almight, Gods and We, the Human beings ..................................................................................... 1 Foreword ................................................................................................................................................. 3 An appeal ................................................................................................................................................ 4 Chapter - 1 .............................................................................................................................................. 8 Chapter - 2............................................................................................................................................. 27 Chapter - 3 ............................................................................................................................................ 42 Chapter - 4 ............................................................................................................................................ 58 Chapter - 5 ............................................................................................................................................ 72 Chapter - 6 .......................................................................................................................................... 104 Chapter - 7 .......................................................................................................................................... 113 Chapter - 8........................................................................................................................................... 137 Chapter - 9 .......................................................................................................................................... 162 Chapter - 10 ........................................................................................................................................ 195 Chapter - 11 ........................................................................................................................................ 217 Chapter - 12 ........................................................................................................................................ 245 Chapter - 13 ........................................................................................................................................ 274 Chapter - 14 ........................................................................................................................................ 312 Chapter - 15 ........................................................................................................................................ 342 3 Foreword There are many religions and Dars’anas in the world. Though on the first sight, the object of all of them looks to be the same, differences do exist. The various practices are formulated according to the objectives to be achieved. The practices of different religions are different only due to this reason. Practicing a particular religion but looking for the objective of another religion is like growing a coconut tree with the desire of obtaining mangoes. The intelligence of those following all the religions is similar to the intelligence of those, who grow and tend the trees considering that the fruits from all the trees will be mangoes only. The stupidity of those who hate the other religions and Dars’anas is similar to the stupidity of those, who consider all the other trees to be of lesser importance because he likes mango. The wisdom of a person, who looks out in other religions for the characteristics that are not to his liking, is like the wisdom of the person, who goes on talking about the bad qualities in the other fruits only to confirm the greatness of the mango fruit, that is liked most by him. With this background behind, the religions and Dars’anas which come into contact with us in our day to day life the are being introduced in this book. This is only a compendium and not an independent writing. The details of different religions and Dars’anas collected from different books are provided in this book. However, the metaphysics or Tattva S’aastra being an ocean there may be many more details. Not only that, there may be some deficiencies as well. They stand to be corrected if the enlightened readers can provide us the necessary authenticities. The readers are earnestly requested to provide a feedback on how far we had succeeded in our efforts in bringing to light the different aspects of the religions and Dars’anas through fictional characters and story telling techniques. The basic characteristics of the religions and the Dars’anas were brought through the talks of some of the characters in the form of a novel and the opinions of the persons belonging to other religions and Dars’anas were made known through the other characters. Depending on the type of the characters voicing these opinions and statements, the narratives have been prepared with rhetoric, seriousness, innocence, humour or other types of expressions. The readers are requested to note this and not to get misled in believing this either as a praise or criticism of those religions and Dars’anas. This is philosophy. It is a very tough subject. It is natural that in spite of the best of efforts in making it simple to understand, it may still appear to be difficult to understand. It is our earnest opinion that if this book is studied two or three times, it will be quite useful. - The Editors. 4 An appeal Some argue that the philosophical or spiritual thinking has become more now compared to previous times and say that the increase in number of the temples and the increased number of people yearning for visiting the Almighty are indications of this phenomenon. Some others discount this line of thinking saying that these changes are due to the increase in population and it need not be construed that the percentage of people with philosophical thinking has gone up. Still some others are of the view that these people are simply those doing these acts with specific objective of enriching themselves with the resultant materialistic benefits only and this need not be taken as spiritual thinking. But some do confirm that this is definitely an indication of the increased spiritual thinking and activity by giving the strong illustrations of increased number of new Ashrams in every village and town and the manifold increase in the number of Matajis and Swamijis. Whatever it may be, it has been accepted in the past and has to be accepted presently also that there exists in an invisible form (beyond the capability to be picked up by the sense organs) something which is much more powerful than us, and the number of persons who think that they should receive the blessings from that invisible super power. The opinions and views of different persons who have been analysing, thinking and searching ‘what that immortal power could be’ at different times have become the different religions and different Dars’anas. Though the academics agree in common that the religion is the one which is practiced mainly on faith and the one Dars’ana to be that is accepted being highly logical, the logicality and bound by reasoning added to the religions in the subsequent times, and the increased faith in the Dars’anakaara of his followers have made these two words viz., religion and Dars’ana to be used as synonyms in the common usage. It is seen subsequently the word ‘religion’ only being used mostly in all the occasions to indicate both religion and the Dars’ana. The number of persons, who consider that all the religions are the same, is also quite substantial in the population of spiritual thinking. They, who say so, keeping the highly principled view that they should not offend others and should be tolerant of the other religions, need to be respected. Those having views of “Any religion will preach universal welfare (of all the beings in the universe) through the basic directives like ‘talk only the truth, conduct yourself according to the prescribed code of conduct’ etc. Hence, all the religions are same” are more respectable. But it must be said that the thinking of those, who consider all the religions to be same because the end result is same in all the cases irrespective of the religion being practiced, is faulty and brings misfortune for themselves as well as their followers. Though the objective of all religions appears to be the same in a broader sense, the angles at which the objective is viewed by different schools of religions are different. If it were not so, there would be no necessity of so many religions! The different political parties that announce their objective to be the development of the country only, have different views on the development. It will be the industrialization for one party while it will be 5 improved agriculture for another. The plans for the development – the objective, are made keeping such views of the development only. Hence, it is imperative on the part of everybody that one should correct oneself after analysing different aspects and eliciting answers for
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