Hinduism as seen through the lens of Divine Principle.

1. DP
&
Hinduism
v 1.5

3. “Learn a lesson from the birds.
They feed those who cannot fly far.
The bird relieves the itch of the buffalo
by scratching it with its beak;
they help and serve each other
with no thought of reward”
/Atharvaveda Sanskrit: अथर्वर्ेद

5. Raija Yoga – Bhakti-Yoga – Karma Yoga
(Link)
According to Vivekananda, an important
teaching he received from Ramakrishna
was that Jiva is Shiva
(each individual is divinity itself).
So he stressed on Shiva Jnane Jiva Seva,
(to serve common people considering them as
manifestation of God).
Ramakrishna
Vivekananda
A Hindu monk from India
who played significant role
in introducing Vedanta
to the Western world and also
reviving and redefining certain
aspect of the religion within India.
India’s renaissance guru.

6. …an important teaching from Ramakrishna was that
Jiva is Shiva (each individual is divinity itself).
So he stressed on Shiva Jnane Jiva Seva,
(to serve common people considering them as
manifestation of God).
“Live for Others” /Sun Myung Moon
Compare Divine Principle v 96:
God created human beings as the final step in creating the universe.
He created them in His image, in the likeness of His internal nature and external form,
and gave them sensibility to all feelings and emotions because it was His intention to share
joy with them.
After their creation, God blessed Adam and Eve:
Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish
of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
-Gen. 1:28
These are the three great blessings: to be fruitful (mature and ready to bear fruit),
multiply and have dominion over the creation.
Had Adam and Eve obeyed this divine mandate and built the Kingdom of Heaven,
there is no doubt that God would have felt the greatest joy as His sons and daughters
rejoiced in the world of His ideal.P

7. Guru Paramahansa Yogananda
one of the distinguished yogis of India.
He was the one responsible for taking the teachings
of meditation and Kriya Yoga to the western countries.
He was also the author of a very renowned book
'Autobiography of a Yogi', which has introduced people
time and again to the timeless wisdom of India

8. Quote from the Great Indian Poet Tagore about Korea:
"In the golden age of Asia
Korea was one of its lamp-bearess
and that lamp is waiting to be
lighted once again for the
illumination of the East.“
Ref: Tagore and Korea by Kim Yang-shik (Poetess)
Was it God and Heaven, already 1929 inspiring Rabindranath Tagore,
winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature,
about the coming New 3rd Israel = Korea, 2nd Coming of Christ and True Parents!
http://www.galleryshanti.com/tagore/02/data_04.pdf
1913 Nobel Prize
in LiteraturePoet: Rabindranath
Tagore
India

9. Introduction
• All religions are prepared for the 2nd Coming of Adam
• Hinduism talks about The Avatar - LINK
Prof. Young Oon Kim
Korea

10. The Avatar: Hinduism's Christ
• Aldous Huxley who - besides being a novelist and social critic –
was a Vedanta enthusiast, believed that mankind has developed a
"Perennial Philosophy." Though this philosophy is expressed by
Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus in different ways,
each religion incorporates the doctrine that God is incarnated in human
form.
For this Brittish writer
there is a basic similarity between the Christian doctrine of the incarnate
Christ and the Hindu idea of the Avatar. Both represent a descent and
manifestation of God in human flesh.

11. • There is no mention of this idea-in the early Vedic hymns of the Aryan
conquerors and it plays no part in the mystical monism of the
Upanishads. But by the time of the epic Mahabharata, belief that
Vishnu appeared in material form more than once was part of popular
Hinduism. The only debatable point was whether devotees of Vishnu
recognised ten, twenty-two or even more avatars of the protective god.
• Basing their faith on a variety of sacred texts the Vishnaivas claimed
that their favourite deity came to earth in the form of both animals and
men. Vishnu was supposed to have lived as a swan, tortoise, fish, boar,
half-lion half-man, and a dwarf. He also incarnated as

12. • Rama, the princely hero of the Ramayama, and Krishna the dark-skinned
lover of Indian cow-girls. They also believed Vishnu would reappear at the
end of our age as the cosmic judge Kalki.
• The Hindu faith in the avatar to come is of particular interest to
eschatologically-minded Christians. According to the Mahabharata, Kalki
will appear during the troubles which are to take place immediately before
the end of our world. Born a Brahmin he will openly glorify Vishnu. Prior to
ushering in a new age, he will destroy all evil; riding a white horse and
brandishing a flaming sword, he will destroy thieves and foreigners. Public
order will be restored and peace on earth will ensue.
• Having thus proved his ability to rule, Kalki will formally declare himself
king of kings and perform the horse sacrifice expected of an emperor. Then
he will give the whole earth to the Brahmins and retire to the forest to show
the superiority of the contemplative life. Inspired by the presence of the
avatar, men will imitate him.

13. • After a careful study of Indian religion, one contemporary Christian
theologian found twelve basic characteristics in the avatar doctrines:
1) in Hindu belief the avatar is real, a visible and fleshly descent of the
divine to the terrestrial plane;
2) the human avatars are born in various ways but always through
human parents;
3) their lives mingle divine and human qualities;
4) the avatars finally die;
5) there may be a historical basis for some of the Hindu avatars Rama,
Krishna, Chaitanya, Ramakrishna, for example;
6) avatars are repeated: one appears whenever there is a catastrophic
decline in righteousness;

14. 7) one avatar differs from another in character, temperament and worth;
8) each comes with work to do: the restoration of harmony in human
society and universe;
9) avatars are not world-renouncing, and constantly advocate the
importance of action rather than contemplation alone;
10) avatars for Hindus provide "special revelation" as the self-
manifestation of Godhead;
11) they reveal a personal rather than impersonal God;
12) avatars prove the existence of a God of grace, in Hindu eyes; as
Ramanuja insisted, a man cannot maintain his existence without God
and God cannot maintain Himself without man."

15. • This theologian then concluded: "The Avatars of Hinduism lead up to
Christ and they are valuable preparations for him. More easily than
Jews or Greeks, Indians can understand the coming of God in human
form.
Yet this very ease has great dangers, and the casual way in which many
modern Hindus consider Christ as just another Avatar deprives him of
significance and challenge." Ramakrishna taught that the saviors of
humanity are those who see God and are so anxious to share their
happiness of divine vision that they voluntarily undergo the troubles of
rebirth in order to lead a struggling humanity to its goal.
An avatar serves as a human messenger of God, like the viceroy of a
mighty monarch. When there is a disturbance in some distant province,
the king sends his representative to quell it; likewise, when religion
wanes in any part of the world, God sends His avatar to guard it.

16. • In such a way Christ, Krishna, Buddha, Chaitanya, etc. were
incarnations of God, that is, extraordinary human beings who were
entrusted with a divine commission." Gandhi held a slightly more critical
view of Jesus. It was more than he could believe, he confessed, that
Jesus was the only incarnate son of God or that one could go to heaven
only by becoming a Christian.
• If God could have sons, all men were His sons. If Jesus was like God,
then all of us are like God. He could not accept literally the notion that
Jesus redeemed the world by his blood. He denied that Jesus was the
most perfect man ever born and even as a martyr was surpassed by
some Hindus.

17. • Rather than expecting India to develop one religion, wholly Christian,
wholly Muslim or wholly Hindu, he wanted his nation to be widely
tolerant with different faiths working side by side." Because Hindus
believe in many avatars instead of a single incarnation, they feel their
faith makes them far less bigoted than Christians.

18. Krishna Killing the Horse Demon Keshi,
Gupta period (ca. 321–500), 5th century India

19. Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja),
Chola period (ca. 860–1279), ca. 11th century
Tamil Nadu, India

20. Shaiva saint, Karaikkal Ammaiyar,
Chola period (ca. 860–1279), ca. late 13th century
Tamil Nadu, India

22. Similarities
Belief in a higher God
They speak of Indra, Yama, Matrarisvan:
the One Being sages call by many names.
Rig Veda 1.164.46 (Hinduism)
Belief in Eternal Spiritual Man
What is here [the phenomenal world], the same
is there [in Brahman]; and what is there, the
same is here.
Katha Upanishad 2.1.10 (Hinduism)

23. Similarities
Belief in Living for Others – Karma Yoga
When a person responds to the joys and
sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has
attained the highest state of spiritual union.
Bhagavad-Gita 6.28-32 (Hinduism)
By seeing your own Self in every being that
breathes, and in every atom of the universe.
When you realize this, you cannot live in
this world without treating everyone with exceeding love
and compassion.
This is indeed practical Vedanta.
/Biography of Vivekenanda
“Live for Others” /Dr Sun Myung Moon

24. Differencies
The Human Fall does not exist in Buddhism,
which lacks a doctrine of Creation, nor in Hinduism,
which regards matter as base and a limitation to be
overcome on the path to self-realization.
We still find even in these religions speculation on a
primordial fall from grace to explain the origin of
evil karma.

25. Differencies
Reincarnation – is a misunderstanding
It is returning ressurecting of Spirits working through
humans alive on Earth.

26. The Coming Age of the Spirit
• Those who criticize Hinduism for being other-worldly, life- negating and
blind to the need for social reconstruction probably have never read the
books of Aurobindo, one of modern India's two most celebrated
philosophers of religion.
• After winning fame as a nationalist revolutionary, Aurobindo suddenly
retired to an ashram at Pondicherry not because he had abandoned the
cause of Indian independence but rather to work out a spiritual
philosophy which would give substance to the nation when it won its
freedom.

27. • During World War I he published a series of essays explaining his
theory about "the psychology of social development. As he saw the
situation, man necessarily evolves through three stages. First comes an
infra-rational period in which men act principally on the basis of their
instincts, impulses and vital intuitions. The society they build is thus
primarily the canalisation of responses to these needs and crystallised
in a variety of social institutions.
• During this conventional age society tends to fix and formalise a system
of rigid hierarchies. Education becomes bound to a traditional and
unchangeable form. Authorities claim to be infallible. In later times, it
appears to be a "golden age," because of its order, precise social
architecture and admirable subordination of all its parts to a general
scheme. Hence the Westerner's longing for the Middle Ages or the
Hindu's admiration for the Vedic period.

28. • But behind splendid facades such times were harsh ages with hidden
evils. For Aurobindo, the medieval period in Europe and the Vedic age in
India were stagnating societies floundering in the iron grip of
conventionalism. Revolution was thus inevitable.
• Revolt against the infra-rational stage produces an age of reason and
individualism. Each man uses his reason to judge, destroy and recreate
his institutions. The individual asserts his rights to develop himself and
fulfil his life according to his own desire. He admits no limit to his liberty
except to respect the same rights for others. Each man and nation has
the inherent freedom to manage its own affairs or mismanage them
without interference. This age of reason however inevitably results in a
tragic conflict between nationalistic or imperialistic egoism and individual
or national liberties.

29. • Consequently we witness the birth of a new idea of universalism or
collectivism. And that is where we are now, states Aurobindo. The Age of
Reason is visibly drawing to an end. During World War I he predicted the
morning light of a new period in the human cycle. The Age of
Protestantism, Revolt, Progress and Freedom is in an inescapable
process of breakdown. Nevertheless, two ideas produced by the
rationalist period cannot be entirely eliminated. First, the future must
preserve the democratic right of all persons to full development of their
capabilities. Secondly, the individual is of value in himself. He is not
merely a member of a pack, hive or ant hill, i.e., as in
Fascism/Communism. Each soul requires freedom, space, and initiative
though of course he must learn to accept the collectivity of his fellow-
beings.

30. • Aurobindo sees man approaching a third stage of his evolutionary
development. We have moved beyond the instinctive to the rational,
but must now step higher to the "supermental." Man is at present
ready to develop a spiritual, supra-intellectual, intuitive outlook - "a
gnostic consciousness." He must exceed himself, divinize his whole
being, become a superman.
• Only a spiritualised society can bring about the crucial harmony
between individual and communal happiness. Using familiar
Christian language, Aurobindo calls for "a new kind of theocracy, the
kingdom of God upon earth, a theocracy which shall be the
government of mankind by the Divine in the hearts and minds of
men. For such a new age the superman must live in the free light of
the intellect, and breathe the fresh air of higher ideals. The age to
come requires wide intellectual curiosity, a cultivated aesthetic taste
and an enlightened will.

31. • Aurobindo carefully distinguished between what he hoped for and
the ordinary Christian hope for the coming kingdom. "The trend of
the Jewish nation which gave us the severe ethical religion of the
Old Testament crude, conventional and barbarous enough in the
Mosaic law, but rising to undeniable heights of moral exaltation
when to the Law were added the Prophets, and finally exceeding
itself and blossoming into a fine flower of spirituality in Judaic
Christianity was dominated by the preoccupation of a terrestrial and
ethical righteousness and the promised rewards of right worship
and right doing, but innocent of science and philosophy, careless of
knowledge, indifferent to beauty.

32. • A better symbol for the age of the superman is found in Hindu
sacred literature. While in the age of Power, Vishnu descends as
king and in the age of Balance, as the legislator or codifier of moral
laws, in the final age that of Truth he comes as the Master of works
manifest in the hearts of his creatures. Such is the kingdom to
come, as we are beginning to see, when we find God not in a
distant heaven but within ourselves and our society. Or as
Aurobindo's widow put it in 1956, the manifestation of divinity (the
Supramental) is no longer a promise, but a verifiable fact. Not only
is it at work here, but the day will come when even the most blind
and unwilling will be obliged to recognise it.

33. Lotus flower ~ Perfection

34. Ref. 1 from Arthur Ford session
• ”The religion of tomorrow will not be called Christian
as you know it now.
• You are already living in a New Age, a post-Christian age.
• Principles of the Christ are not limited to any age.
• And now in the New Age, it is an age of orchestration –
of a symphony - of unity.
And the New Teacher will be neither Christian, Buddhist, Moslem, or
anything else.
• The Holy Spirit speaks in universal terms - and God will no longer be
fragmented. God will be the one God - who sent forth his Son not once
but many times.

35. Ref. 2 From Divine Principle
UNIFICATION OF ALL OTHER RELIGIONS BY
RESURRECTION THROUGH SECOND COMING
• As discussed in the "Consummation of Human History", we cannot
deny the historical fact that all religions, which in fact have an
identical purpose, are being absorbed gradually into the cultural
sphere of Christianity.
• Therefore, Christianity is not a religion for Christians alone but has
the mission of accomplishing the ultimate purpose of all the religions
that have appeared in the past. Naturally, the Lord of the Second
Advent, who comes as the central figure in Christianity, will also play
the role of Buddha, whom Buddhists believe will come again, as well
as the role of the "True Man" whose appearance Confucianists
anticipate, and "Chung Do Ryung" ("Herald of the Righteous Way")
whom many Koreans expect to come. In addition, he will also play
the role of the central figure whom all other religions await.

36. Ref. 2 From Divine Principle
UNIFICATION OF ALL OTHER RELIGIONS BY
RESURRECTION THROUGH SECOND COMING
• For this reason, the spirit men who believed in religions other
than Christianity while on earth will have to come again, like
the spirit men of Paradise, in order to receive the same benefit of
resurrection through the Second Advent, though the time of their
visitation may differ according to their spiritual positions.
• In this manner, they are destined to descend to the earthly men who
belong to their religions and lead them to the Lord of the Second
Advent, cooperating with them to believe in and serve him for the
accomplishment of the will of God.
Therefore, all religions will finally be unified, centering on Christianity.

37. For more Studies:
See Divine Principle Nepal 2010
www.euro-tongil.org/swedish/english/PPT/DP_Nepal/

38. Glossary:
Atman = Sanskrit word that means 'inner-self' or 'soul'
Bhakti Yoga = In Hinduism and Buddhism, "Bhakti" is a
technical term meaning "portion, share", from the
root bhaj- "to partake in, to receive one's share".
It refers to religious devotion in the form of active
involvement of a devotee in worship of the divine.
Within monotheistic Hinduism, it is the love felt by the
worshipper towards the personal God.
Bhagavad Gita = The Bhagavad Gita, The Song of the
Bhagavan, often referred to as simply the Gita, is a 700-
verse scripture that is part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata.

39. Glossary:
Brahma = “God” In Hinduism, Brahman is "the
unchanging reality amidst and beyond the world", which
"cannot be exactly defined". The highest reality.
Brahmin = Brahman refers to the Supreme Self “God”.
Brahmin (or Brahmana) refers to an individual belonging
to the Hindu priest, artists, teachers, technicians class
(varna or pillar of the society) and also to an individual
belonging to the Brahmin tribe/caste.

40. Glossary:
Chakra = The traditional Hindu system
of belief encompasses energy centers known as
chakras, which serve to accumulate, assimilate, and
transmit psychological, physical, and spiritual energies.
When these areas of interconnection between body and
spirit are purified or opened up through the process of
yoga (sometimes called raja yoga or kundalini yoga),
the adept may experience an enormous infusion of
energy, and, in some cases, enlightenment.

41. Glossary:
Hatha Yoga = Yoga as exercise or alternative
medicine primarily involves hatha yoga, which focuses on
physical postures.
Aspects meditation are sometimes included.
Karma Yoga = Karma yoga is often understood as a yoga
of selfless (altruistic) service
Jnana Yoga = the significance of knowing self so as to
know the supreme and that it is essential
to overcome the ego and its identification with the body.
Compare : DP Mind-Body unity

42. Glossary:
Maya = Queen Māyā of Sakya was the birth mother
of Gautama Buddha, the sage on whose
teachings Buddhism was founded, In early Vedic
literature, Varuna's supernatural power is called Maya.
Mukti = Mukti-yogyas are Jivas or souls who are
receptive to spiritual values, and through repeated
embodiments they evolve into better and better men, and
finally through concentrated spiritual discipline and God's
grace attain salvation.
Narayana = the name of the Supreme God in his infinite
all pervading form.

43. Glossary:
Samahdi = highest level of concentrated meditation
Sannyasins = Holy Man/Women
Sannyasa is the life stage of the renouncer within
the Hindu scheme of āśramas. It is considered the
topmost and final stage of the ashram systems.

44. Glossary:
Upanishads = a collection of Vedic texts which contain
the earliest emergence of some of the central
religious concepts of Hinduism, Buddhism
and Jainism.
They are also known as Vedanta
("the end of the Veda").
Vedanta = See Upanishads

45. References:
Divine Principle: www.unification.net/dp96
Speeches by Sun Myung Moon: www.tparents.org/Lib-Moon-Talk.htm
World Scriptures 1 & 2; http://www.unification.net/ws/,
http://www.euro-tongil.org/swedish/english/World_Scripture_II_Text.pdf
World Religions Vol. 2 by Prof. Young Oon Kim, Korea 1976
http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Books/WorldRel2/0-Toc.htm
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46. Remember the pure beauty
in Gods nature
is there to inspire
the inner beauty inside us!
Have a great Blessed week! /Bengt