If a God-man is just like us, what's the point?
So what if God was a single of us? That's a subject Joan Osborne asked in a lyrics of her song, "One of us."
That thought came to mind after you wrote about an Indian guru, Gurinder Singh Dhillon, bringing in over $250 million for himself as well as his family through insider transactions of Religare stock.
Since a shares radically were gifted to a guru as well as his sons (the 2006 purchase price was very low, about 1% of a current marketplace value) by office worker kin who additionally are disciples of Gurinder Singh, it can be argued which this is zero unusual.
It's hackneyed for people to make use of their influence as well as connections to make large money. Politicians do it. Business tycoons do it. Wall Street wheelers as well as dealers do it.
But this guru is deliberate by devotees to be God in tellurian form. He's vital as well as breathing in a Punjab. So to loyal believers he's exactly what Osborne was referring to: God as a single of us.
Though you used to consider this was probable -- God in tellurian form -- here's what bothers me about this GIHF supposition now: if God is a single of us, just similar to a single of us, there's zero special about God or God in tellurian form.
I've talked about this before in What if a "guru" is no opposite from us?
How do you know which anyone has special imagination in a little field? We can endorse which a towering climber knows how to scale formidable peaks. We can request which a computer technician is able to get refractory machines using smoothly again.
Yet where's a evidence which a guru is any opposite from you or me when it comes to meaningful what, if anything, lies over a earthy being which you experience now? How could you discuss it which a guru is able to get one's mind/soul in great working order?
I similar to to visualize a "Who's a Guru?" game show, somewhat akin to a 1950s-60s "What's My Line?&quo! t; The i dea would be to collect a satguru ("true guru") out of a bunch of impostors.
How could this be done? What questions would be asked? Of course, a greatest subject is either a game even is possible, since a producers of a uncover would have to find a genuine loyal guru themselves.
This isn't a fantasy game. It is being played by millions of people in each corner of a world.
Heck, make which billions if you have a expansive definition of "guru," a single which includes ministers, imams, rabbis, priests, yogis, as well as others who claim a little special knowledge of a divine aspect to reality.
Skepticism is called for.
For sure. Disciples of a guru such as Gurinder Singh love to speak about how tellurian he is. "Wow, he kicks a soccer ball, wears blue jeans, gets angry, creates mistakes, falls sick."
Yes. That's true. So what?
Everybody can do these things. Along with creation money. How does this indicate to a guru's divinity? Shouldn't showing each sign of being a normal tellurian being lead to an viewable conclusion?
The guru is a normal tellurian being.
Once someone told me a story about on foot in to a room where Gurinder Singh was carrying a meeting. The guru had been reviewing a book publishing created by this person.
Seeing a visitor come in, he picked up a publishing as well as threw it at his visitor, pages pinch over a floor. After uttering a dismissive criticism about how bad a publishing was, he went back to his meeting.
Most people would consider this a typical "bad boss" episode, a superior behaving similar to a jerk. But a disciple who told me a story deliberate a guru's actions to be as undiluted as a God in tellurian form always is.
We just can't recognize a soundness when it appears as annoy or a little other normal tellurian attribute.
Well, if God can't be recognized, if God acts no opposite from us, if it is unfit for a God-realized per! son to b e differentiated from everyone else, what's a indicate of desiring which someone is God in tellurian form?
