Pamho, HK,
1. How to answer the question fully to a person who says man was made in the image of God ?
2. How to answer a person who takes a pose of Krishna ?
I already know 2 points:
1. Krishna lifted Govardhana Hill on His smallest finger. No human being can do this.
2. Krishna showed Universal Form to Arjuna. No human being can do this.
Please suggest some strong intellectual points so that I can fight out this type of bogus Mayavada directly or with bare hands if need be to protect devotees.
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Found this one with various references regarding understanding Brahman , Parmatma and Bhagavan
https://raganugaprembhakti.wordpress.com/different-aspects-of-absol...
supreme authority over aspect of all creation is to personally be engaged in the chanting of the Most holly names of The GodHeads Hari, Krishna & Rama.
Because the fruits of success in meditation are spontaneous "When the holy names of Krishna. dance within the courtyard of the heart they concur the activates of the mind & all the sinces become enert" this defines the aim of meditation. It is restful for the mind & body enjoyable and enhances the awakening of awareness the intelligence.
Imeedeitly, without any extremisms of personal austerity.
Calling out/on The Names of The GodHeads One personally perceives the quality of the superlative authority of KRISHNA and over-time all doubts fears ignorance are eradicated from the Conditioned Mind) centPerCent-
and reasoning and acting with good intel becomes much easier to accomplish The key hear is -
that direct perceptions educates the mind more lastingly-than other forms of attempting to graduate the mind from the the state of (materially conditioned-to-intellectually liberated. Hari Bola!
Why Krishna is God?
Do you know God’s name, qualities, address, description, history dating back to billions of years, witnessed by millions, and proven?
If you can answer these questions, only then can you truly say you know God.
The Vedic scriptures are the oldest scriptures in the World and the only scriptures that can answer all these questions and in detail.
The Vedic scriptures completely describe God. His history, address, qualities, description, how he creates and maintains and so on. That God is Lord Krishna.
1. The first requirement is that the contender for the position of the supreme has been seen.
Seeing is believing, not seeing is pure speculation.
Lord Krishna has incarnated at least 9 times so far in the current cycle of creation. In each incarnation millions saw him. There is scientific evidence to prove that he existed 5000 years ago, as stated in the Vedic scriptures. Scientists have found the city where Lord Krishna lived in Dwarka, India, as described in the Vedic scriptures. NASA has taken satellite pictures of the bridge between India and Sri Lanka that Lord Krishna built in his Lord Ram incarnation, some 1.7 million years ago.
2. The second requirement is that the contender’s description is known.
How can you believe in someone without actually seeing them or knowing what they look like?
Lord Krishna is complete in six kinds of opulence – wisdom, beauty, fame, power, wealth, and renunciation.
3. The third requirement is that the contender’s divinity is proven.
Anyone can claim to be God, but who can actually prove it?
To protect innocent people from imposters, Arjuna asked Lord Krishna to prove his divinity.
Lord Krishna granted Arjuna divine vision and revealed his spectacular unlimited forms as the cosmic universe. Thus he conclusively established his divinity.
In each incarnation, Lord Krishna proved that he was God, all the details can be found in the Srimad Bhagavatam. Here we will focus on his incarnation 5000 years ago.
Lord Krishna performed miracles that no other being can perform.
4. The fourth requirement is that the contender’s qualities are known and proven
Lord Krishna has 64 qualities, which are all mentioned in the Vedic scriptures.
Supreme Father:
Supreme Creator: Lord Krishna is the origin of all.
Supreme Controller: Lord Krishna is the supreme controller.
Supreme Maintainer:
Omnipresent: Lord Krishna is omnipresent, meaning he is present everywhere.
Omnipotent: Lord Krishna is omnipotent, meaning he is the greatest.
Omniscient: Lord Krishna knows the past, present, and the future.
There is Only One God:
5. The fifth requirement is that the contender’s history dating back to Billions of years is known.
Full details on the pastimes of Lord Krishna in each of his incarnations can be found in the Srimad Bhagavatam.
The Vedic scriptures contain the history of Lord Krishna dating back to billions of years.
6. The sixth requirement is that the contender’s supremacy is mentioned in authorized scriptures.
The Vedic scriptures are the only scriptures that have existed since the beginning of time, and thus eternal and the absolute truth. There is no higher authority than that of the Vedic scriptures.
Lord Brahma who is the first created living being states in Brahma Samhita:
After Describing various incarnations of the Lord such as Rama, Balrama, Vamana, Nrsimha, and Vishnu, Sukadeva Goswami states:
Lord Shiva in the Gita Mahatmya states:
In the Padma Purana it is stated:
In the Skanda Purana it states:
The position of Krishna as God is confirmed by great personalities like Narada, Asita, Devela, Parasara, Brahma, and Shiva.
7. The seventh requirement is that the contender’s address is known.
The Srimad Bhagavatam gives the address of Lord Krishna as:
The top most Planet shaped like a Lotus called Goloka Vrindavana in the spiritual universe called Vaikuntha.
Conclusion
Everyone is looking for God, well here is the person God, Lord Krishna. Since you do not know anyone else with the details and proof just mentioned. Why don’t you accept him? (Reference ‘Courtesy of Bhagavad-Gita.ws’)
http://iskconbirmingham.org/why-krishna-is-god
Hare Krsna Prabhuji,
PAMHO.
1. Yes, man was made in the form of God. God, in His original form, is two handed, so is man. Krsna is God. So wahts the problem?
2. Simply taking pose of Krsna does not make anyone Krsna. Imitation is the best form of flattery. By taking the pose of Krsna, he is simply acknowledging that Krsna is God. No problems in that also. You could suggest to him that the gait has to be more pronounced, there has to be an enchanting smile on the face and the person should think of Krsna in full devotion at the time of making this pose to be effective.
Give this person some prasadam, keep on talking to him till he wants to take a nature break. Then stop him from going and point out that if he cannot even control nature's call, how can he control nature? There are somany ways prabhu. Pinch him and ask whether it hurt? Tell him how can it hurt it he is God.
You dont get hassled. Take it with a pinch of humor and with humor itself you can defeat this person.
Haribol,
Your servant,
Radha Rasamayi DD
Hare Krsna,
My obeisances to all devotees, guru and gauranga.
There is no need to get into some intellectual arguments with your friends over Krsna's supremacy. Just donate your friend a copy of Bhagvad Gita As It Is and some prasad along with it. Leave what comes out of it to Srila Prabhupad and Krsna.
By this way, you are doing your part in spreading KC but still being not attached to the fruits of such labor.
Srila prabhupada ki jai..
Hare krsna