Religion this week: Q & A about Hinduism

[Samir_Mirchandani]

Re: Religion this week: Q & A about Hinduism

@BigdaNawab

Bhagvagita: Ch. 7, V. 19 to 23… ‘All those who worship demi gods, all those do idol worship, they are materialistic people’
Yajurveda: Ch. No. 32, V. No. 3…‘Natasya Pratima Asti’… ‘Of that God, no image can be made’.*
Yajurveda, Ch. No. 40, V. No. 8 says… ‘God is image less, and body less – He has got no form, He has got no body’
*Yajurveda: Ch. No. 40, V. No. 9 …“Andhatma pravishanti ye assambhuti mupaste”..All those who worshipping the Asumbhuti, are in darkness’. Asumbhuti means “Created Things”
Rigveda: in Vol. No. 8, Ch. No. 1, V. No. 1…​“Ma Chidanyadvi Shansata”…‘All praises are due to Him alone’ . This is the same as Quranic verse 1:1.
Regveda: Vol. 6, Ch. No. 45, V. No. 16…" There is only one God… Worship Him alone"

The truth is God has sent His truth message of guidance and love and means of worshipping to all of man kind during all eras in the form or thousands of messengers, and prophets with their own books and scriptures which were slowly corrupted. The final messenger, Prophet Muhammed had one mission, re-instate and re-clarify the same message and confirm all previous prophets and messengers and revelations. He didn’t bring anything new. He was to be the final messenger and the Book Quran was to be the final book preserved for all times by God Himself to protect from any changes.

Glad you asked these questions and I will try the best of my limited knowledge to answer. To understand the answers you need to first comprehend two important basic ideas fundamental to Vedic and Dharmic concepts:

1. The Hindu understanding of nature includes God and several levels of demigods. The demigods all have specific attributes and purposes whereas the God (Paramathma) is nirguna (of no attributes). Please read my first post on this subject in this thread.

2. Vedas are supposed to be learnt orally from a Guru - they cannot be simply read and understood. That is the mistake I suspect you have made (or whoever you quoted from made).

I will explain this by taking your reference to Srimadh Bhagvad Gita -

Your reference to Srimadh Bhagvat Gita, Chapter 7, V 20:

Chapter 7 deals with ‘Knowledge of the ultimate Truth’ – In verses 20 to 22, Bhagvan actually explains how to do demi-God worship (no reference to idols, so I don’t know why you chose to quote this, but anyway, hope this sheds some light on you) as follows:
7.20: Those deprived of discrimination by various desires impelled by their particular nature worship the lesser demigods adapting to the applicable rites and rituals
7.21: Whichever demigod a particular devotee desires with faith to worship, I surely sustain firmly that faith to him.
7.22: Endowed with that firm faith the devotee executes worship of this demigod and sanctioned by Me solely obtains that which he desired from that demigod.

Do you see the difference here? You made several mistakes here!

1. you looked at 7.20 and misread demigods as idols. These are different. Agni for example is a very highly placed demigod; a statue of Agni is the idol. People worship Agni not the statue of Agni

2. You failed to see where Bhagvan was leading you - take a look at 7.21: He says He will give you the necessary faith to worship the demigod of your choice (of your desire) - for example, if you want to move water from place to place, use a pitcher, NOT a bag. But if you want to carry books, use a bag, not a pitcher. The Bhagvan says He will give you that knowledge to know which carrier for which desire

3. And He tells you the impact in 7.22; and specifically tells you that each demigod worship is different and the so are the results but ALL of that is as sanctioned by Him.

In all the other references in your question, the mistakes or misreads you are committing are very similar.