Recognizing and Practicing the World Religion

There is only one religion in the world. That religion is to love God, and it is the world religion. Every religious man will agree that the goal of religion is to love God. So why then do we have so many different religions in the world with people hating each other and killing each other in the name of religion? This is due to a sectarian misunderstanding of what is actual religion. Just as there is only sun in the sky although it has hundreds of different names according to the different languages of the world, in a similar way even though there are many different names of God according to the different languages of the world, there is only one Supreme Being, who is the source of all existence. Enough is enough. It's time to end all of this divisiveness. The time has come to lay aside all petty sectarianism and celebrate the universal nature of religion. Real religion brings everyone together because we are all children of the same father. It is only pseudo, cheating religion which divides us. Practicing real religion is not difficult. One simply to has to every day chant the holy names of God and live a saintly life free from illicit sex, meat eating, intoxication, and gambling. In this way he will revive his dormant love of God and become spiritually perfect.

Presenting the World Religion on the Radio
Radio Station KOOP-23 January 2011-Austin, Texas

Sankarshan Das Presenting the World Religion,Radio Station KOOP

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: Why Worship Form of Formless God?

Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances
All glories to Srila Prabhupada and his followers.

I would like to know how to answer the question posed by a Muslim:

Why do you worship the form of God in the temple when God is formless?

Joy

Answer: God isn't Formless. His Form is Unlimited.

If a Muslim asks such a question, he is not learned in his own scripture, the Qur'an clearly states as follows::

Wa lillaahil - Mashriqu wal-Magrib: Fa- 'aynamaa
tu-walluu fa-samma Wajhul-laah

"To Allah belong the East and the West, and wherever you turn there is Allah's face."
--Qur'an 2.115

That Allah or God has a face means that He has a form because someone who is formless must also be faceless. God's form-possessing nature is also confirmed in the Bible and in the Vedic scriptures.

Besides a wealth of scriptural evidence establishing that God has a form, we can also understand through logic that God must have a form. The logic is very simple: We cannot exceed God in any way. Therefore we cannot possess something that He does not possess. It's not that we can have a form and He cannot. He must also have form. The difference is that His form is unlimited while our forms are limited. His form is the source of everything, and our forms come from His form.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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