Existence of Gods
An interesting anecdote in the Manas is related to the marriage of Bhagawan Shankar. The sages requested Lord Shankar to take the blessings of Lord Ganesha at the time of His marriage to mother Parvati! This appears astonishing. How could the son of Lord Shiva and Parvati exist before the meeting of His own parents and be present in the form of an idol to bless His own parents? It is said in the Manas that Lord Shiva and mother Parvati very happily performed Ganesha Puja (worship) before tying the nuptial knots! Goswami Tulsidas says:
"Muni anusäsaì ganapatihi püjeu saàbhu bhaväni | kou suni sansay karainjani anädi jiyeì jäni
(Manas: Bälkäìòa: Verse 1: Stanza: 100)
One can ask how this is possible. Lord Ganesha can only be born after the marriage of Lord Shiva and mother Parvati; to which Goswamiji replies that no one should doubt this statement since all the Devatas of the Vedic pantheon are "Anädi" or eternal in nature. There can be no chronology whatsoever that can categorically deny the presence of the Gods before a certain period because the Gods are eternal just as the process of involution and evolution of the universe is eternal.
If one understands the Vedic idea of eternity and the nature of being eternal one would have in a way solved the ideas of birth and death, understanding very well that the idea of non-existence is, in fact, baseless and not the other way round. If we erroneously accept the "beginning of something or event or a person" as a concept then all our ideas of life and the misconceptions sprouting out from such acceptance will continue to baffle and confound us endlessly. Fundamentally the idea of origination springs verily from the womb of the eternal. It is only that the energy of thought cannot impinge into the reality of the eternal. For thought to be potent and useful it becomes obligatory for one to conceptualize a theory of origination whereas the Vedic truth is rooted in the reality that everything around us is endless, ageless and eternal although our area of experience limited by our senses forces us to believe otherwise.
All mass, in fact, is at the very root, energy and even science has proved that energy as an entity is eternal and can never be created or destroyed. It can only be harnessed or transmuted or played with but at its very source can never be uprooted. Our gross experience of the world is somehow built on the false notion of "age" since our senses limit the "ageless" experience of life, death and beyond.
If one understands the Vedic idea of eternity and the nature of being eternal one would have in a way solved the ideas of birth and death, understanding very well that the idea of non-existence is, in fact, baseless and not the other way round. If we erroneously accept the "beginning of something or event or a person" as a concept then all our ideas of life and the misconceptions sprouting out from such acceptance will continue to baffle and confound us endlessly. Fundamentally the idea of origination springs verily from the womb of the eternal. It is only that the energy of thought cannot impinge into the reality of the eternal. For thought to be potent and useful it becomes obligatory for one to conceptualize a theory of origination whereas the Vedic truth is rooted in the reality that everything around us is endless, ageless and eternal although our area of experience limited by our senses forces us to believe otherwise.
All mass, in fact, is at the very root, energy and even science has proved that energy as an entity is eternal and can never be created or destroyed. It can only be harnessed or transmuted or played with but at its very source can never be uprooted. Our gross experience of the world is somehow built on the false notion of "age" since our senses limit the "ageless" experience of life, death and beyond.
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