On Muhammad - and finally finding peace with Muslims

First of all, I do not know of a person named Muhammad. So every person holds his own view of him.

If any person finds goodness in his words and finds peace, I'm all for that. But it's also true that some people have found bad ideas from his words. But this is true for any good person too. Even if a person was really good, people only see how they and others see him.

Now, I believe that you can find good ideas from anywhere, and I hold no restrictions on where you can find it from. It is your heart where the real you lies. 

If someone finds bad ideas, wherever they're from, I do not have to put in constant effort to defend myself from them. I am protected by my deities according to my beliefs. I follow Advaita Vedanta. (More on this below).

If I am harmed, it's because my deities failed to protect me. If I find peace, that too is from my deities. Whether they protect me or not is based on what's in my heart and that's due to my actions. My fate is my own making, and I'm not a victim in the world.

Aham Brahmasmi. (I am the light that reflects on the heart. If the heart is good, the reflection is good, and if the mind is dark, the reflection is dark.)

With this, I do not have targeted hatred towards any labels. All views are only labels and signs, and it is what you take out of them that matters.

Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti. 🕉️ 


[And by "deities", Adavita Vedanta states that all beings are created by the one Brahman by veiling its nature with its Maya Shakti, and therefore all beings are Brahman reflected on the minds. But at the same time, within the veil or Maya, there is Vidya Maya which can remove Avidya, and Avidya Maya, where there is bondage and free will. Each being is truly Brahman, but is also Brahman reflected on the mind formed in Avidya, and the reflected light mistakes itself to be the mind rather than Brahman. At the same time, Brahman reflected on Vidya does not make this mistake, and is a clear reflection of Brahman. When Brahman is reflected on the waking mind, it has the ability to alter its thoughts. By following the right actions and thoughts outlined in the Veda, which is Vidya Maya, one aligns his mind to reflect the nature of Brahman properly, and he realizes his true identity, and attains liberation. However, when one sets out in this path the darkness within mind may drag him back from the right path. To counteract this, one seeks aid from the deities, which are the mind's personification of Vidya Maya, which counteracts the personification of dark thoughts, because if you can let darkness in easily, you can just as easily let light in. 

Because where there are forces of darkness, there are forces of light, and light is always more powerful than darkness, or else the world would not have a basis. And without the deities, one would be trying to correct everything himself, and he would face the risk of going astray in this process. And this is exactly Jesus said too, about how one cannot get to the Father (analogous to Brahman) without him. This path is called Karma Yoga, or the path of action. The Bhagavad Geeta also notes that Karma Yoga is difficult, and Bhakti Yoga, or the path of devotion, is the easier path.

In the Abrahamic parlance, these deities are the same as angels. You can refer to the deities as many or just as one deity. Since Charlie Kirk said that you're the moving average of the 5 people you spend the most time with, I decided to do the Panchayatana Pooja, because let those 5 people be 5 deities, who are Eeshvara Swaroopa Moortis (personas in God's image).

Also when Brahman creates Maya, Brahman that underlies the whole of Maya is called Eeshvara, and since ultimately you realize that you're Brahman, you also realize that you were the creator of your life. Hence, Aham Brahmasmi.

Also, if you consider the whole of Vidya Maya as one deity, then it is equivalent to the Abrahamic God, in that it is one and separate from the rest of creation, which is in Avidya Maya. The only difference of course, is that, by purifying the mind, one realizes themselves to be Brahman itself. But again, that's not an incompatibility because Avidya Maya never becomes Vidya Maya. 

But the idea that all beings are truly their creator is blasphemous. The only way of fixing this is to recognize it the way Hanuman tells Rama after he taught him the Brahma Vidya: "when I identify as the body, I serve you; when I identify as the individiual soul, I am a part of you; and when I identify as the Atma (Self), I am you".

(This is a popular verse which had also been quoted by Vivekananda in "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Vol. 8 > Lectures And Discourses > Discourses On Jnana-Yoga > V" and is commonly attributed to "Valmiki Ramayanam" without any specific references, but I found out that it's from verse 3.192 of a Telugu treatise on the "Rama Hridaya" portion of the "Baala Kaanda" of "Adhyatma Ramayana" called "Sita-Rama-Anjaneya Samvadam" by Parashurama Pantulu Lingamurti Garu)

But that's assuming they know about the metaphysics. In reality, they are conditioned by their traditions and misrepresent our views. The only solution is form them to come to the realization on their own, and as I said, my duty is to focus on my actions.]

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