Necessity of incarnation of God as a human
The incarnation of God seems to have
occurred many times. Each religion represents at least one or even many
incarnations of God. India is a big example of many incarnations of God in many
forms.
The early human being after his thinking
capacity was sufficiently developed after some generations was surprised to see
himself and animals and birds and the Earth and stars in the sky, started
thinking wherefrom all of these came including himself. And he got the idea
that some power in the universe created them all. He called this power as God, the creator. And
the same thought continued till today in spite of enormous development in
technology and the power of human thinking with some deviations and certain
beliefs. In this process of thinking he also understood that ones he prayed
God, God is responding to his prayers depending on the intensity
(concentration) of his prayers. But even the modern man failed to understand
what is behind his prayers and how and why his prayers are materialized.
On his development in thinking processes,
some humans who studied our thinking processes accidentally understood that it
is the thinking with certain right thoughts is the basis for the response of
God. So in order to develop right thinking they formed suitable meaningful
sentences to get response from God. They have also understood that the
repetition of such sentences with more concentration is more powerful to get
the response from God. This type of understanding led to scientific meditation
which is not connected to any religious faith. In such scientific meditation
there is no need even to mention the word ‘God’. It will automatically reach
God by some natural process and response also comes. However this fact is not
fully understood by many and even now religious faith is dominating.
If we go back and think well we can
understand how the religion came into existence and why there was need to God
to take many incarnations. In the ancient days people assumed that God created
the universe and started praying God. But there concentration in many cases
(with some exceptions) was very less to get their prayers materialized. In
order to improve the concentration of them in prayers there was need of super
human beings who can do miracles. This is only possible if God takes the form
of human being and do some miracles. In such a case, humans are forced to
believe that human form as that of God and pray that form with greater
concentration as he witnessed the miracles of God’s human form. In order to
improve the human positive thinking and to help humans in this way God has
taken human forms in some incarnations. If this incarnation is at one place it
may not spread all over the world at a faster rate. Hence God has to take many
incarnations in human form at different places at different times as regional
Gods. Each incarnation resulted in different religion and different faiths.
Thus for the sake of humans God has taken different incarnations in human form
at different places at different times resulting in different religions with
different faiths.
The basic principal of all these religions
is a secret and if properly understood it is a positive optimistic thought.
Hence a popular meditation with a sentence ‘day by day in every way I am
getting better and better’ is highly useful repetition for betterment of life.
It reaches God and response comes. Repetition of the sentence with
concentration is essential.
The following quotations from the religious
books support the above fact.
From the Bible :
“Before the
world was created, the word already existed; he was with God, and he was the
same as God. From the very beginning the
word was with God. Through him God made all things.” (From the book John, chapter
1, verses 1 to 3.
“So God
created human beings, making them to be like himself.” (From the book Genesis,
chapter 1, verse 27).
“Ask me it
will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to
you”. (Mathews, chapter 7, verse 7, from the Bible). This indicates that the
God is kind enough to give what we desire, provided there is sufficient
concentration and strength of mind in our thoughts.
If we go through the above verses from the
Bible it clearly indicates that the word (Thought) is God and we are also part
of the word of God. It is a clear indication that we can approach God through
the word of God which is also with us.
As the same is not thoroughly understood
by humans there came the necessity of sending the Son of God, Jesus to
introduce prayer which is also a positive thought and is the word of God. It
may please be noted that the word of God,
(positive thoughts) can also nullify the sins if humans.
The
Vedantic conception of God:
“What is God of Vedanta? He is principle, not person. You and I are
all personal Gods. The absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver and
destroyer of the universe is impersonal principle”. ----- “God is the infinite,
impersonal being, ever existent, unchanging, immortal, fearless; and you are
all His incarnations, His embodiments. This is the God of Vedanta, and His
heaven is everywhere”.
This also indicates almost the same
meaning as in the above quotes from the Bible.
Others:
“Being a great force thought carries
tremendous power. It becomes a matter of great moment to know how to use this
power in the highest possible way and to the greatest possible effect. This can
best be done by the practice of meditation”.(From the book ‘Thought Power’ by
Swamy Sivananda.
Besides the incarnations of God himself. God created many prophets (may
be called as God men) to generate faith in God and thereby prayer which also
produced positive thought (word of God) which benefits humans with good
concentration..
In short positive thought is the word of
God. It can be generated by many ways including any religious prayer. In order
to get the benefits of the word of God the following care is needed.
1. Concentrate on your own religious prayer.
2. Don’t criticize other religions. You
will lose what is gained by prayers of your own religion as the basic principle
of all the religions are the same.
3. Develop concentration by several
means including black spot gazing etc. if necessary. Most of the prayers result
in failure due to lack of concentration.
4. Form meaningful short sentences and
apply repetition suitably with sufficient concentration. This is meditation.
5. Preferable timings for meditation are
early in the morning soon after one gets up and just before going to bed. In
general any time is preferable.
6. Our ordinary prayers in the church,
temple etc. do not have sufficient concentration. So also our family prayers.
Long and lengthy prayers also lack concentration. So, such prayers may not work
fully. Prayers should be of meditational type with short and meaningful
sentences with repetition and with concentration..
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