Godman - A boon or bane?

Hinduism has no prophets, no messengers and no sons of God. Why? Because there is no God in Hinduism. Everything and anything is the Brahman. When anything and everything is God there can't be a God separate, a godman separate and a group of followers separate. There is no creator separate from the created. It is Paramatman, meaning ever pervading existence. Then why do Hinduism have a horde of Godman? and million Gods?

To understand that one needs to first realize that everything is God. When one says everything it includes the ignorant and the enlightened, it includes the bad and the good, it includes the oceans and the mountains, it includes the animals and the birds, it includes the inanimate and the animate, it includes the atom and the nothing. In simple words it includes the un-manifested consciousness and the manifested consciousness. In a single word as consciousness. 

The one aspect that truly makes human stand out from the rest of the existence is his intellect - a faculty that is capable of knowing. It is this same intellect that differentiates one human from another. The awakening of this intellect - meaning the person has realized and is capable of seeing beyond the veils of illusion and he is in complete tune and harmony with existence, as One - is known as enlightenment. These are the enlightened beings that we call as God - Shiva, Krishna and many million other enlightened beings who were born just like you and I. Absolutely no difference.

The seekers of the divinity look upon the enlightened ones with reverence in the hope that they get to taste the nectar of bliss. In our constant search for contentment, some humans tend to start seeking for it internally, within oneself. This group may chance upon an enlightened master to unravel the mysteries of existence. Though, the seeker knows he is God himself and that his Guru is no separate from him, it only remains a mere knowledge, just a theory. In order to realize this knowing he would look up on his realized Guru as a separate entity and express reverence and treat him as God. The truly realized master takes no pride in this treatment nor is he going to be disappointed if he has no followers. The ever content master has no agenda or desire to fulfill. With reverence in place the seeker is more willing to set aside his limited knowledge and arrogance paving the path to acquire greater wisdom. This enlightened person could end up being called as Godman by the world. This existence had thousands before, few now and would have many to come.

Certain crooks who has half the knowledge but no realization misuse the system, claim as messengers of God or closer to God. They cause gullible men and women to follow them, abuse them and exploit them. We have seen many impostors and would see many more, but that doesn't affect the genuine seeker of truth from meeting a genuine master. The gullible usually seek material pleasure and would end up meeting an impostor while the true seeker of the truth doesn't seek a guru. To a genuine seeker of the truth the realized Guru happens and that guru can be a flamboyant guru like Krishna or a guru in recluse like Shiva, external appearance including his behavior doesn't matter but how settled and still he is inside matters. Since it could be very misleading one doesn't ever shop, The teacher arrives when the student is ready.

PS - The twisted movie makers and the ignorant ranters and admirers of movies like PK would do a lot good to themselves and in turn to the society if they understand the system they live in. Instead of painting the system ugly, by participating in the mockery, it would do good to clean up the system of impostors than lose the only chance to raise above towards Being-ness.

Why religious fanatics hate their God?

Every religious devout on this face of Earth believes that his / her God alone is true. They love their God and would go to any extent to prove their loyalty to that God. The stauncher his fanaticism the greater is his unflinching devotional practices. The books and prophets are revered as God. They kill and destroy in the name of absolute allegiance to that God. This planet has seen much bloodshed and would see lot more because man wants to write the ever merciful name in blood.

Ironically, it is the faithful who claim that God created the whole universe. They would vouch for God's creative prowess. They claim their God is all pervading and powerful, They declare their God is merciful and kind. 

Well the Greatness of God is indeed unlimited but they don't like that. He hates his God to create any other religion other than his own. He dislikes any other path to salvation. He hates his God to have a name other than the name that is known to him. It is man's dictum that God should adhere to? So it looks like. Man hates existence to explore with few experiments since it is beyond his understanding. It is man's inability to fathom the completeness that brings abiding books of rules. Any creation by the creator that is not to his liking belongs to the devil. The devout create an entity called devil which had been toying with the invincible and powerful almighty all these eons and he must rush to protect his God. God would wonder if his self declared army have really understood his invincibility. Is God so fragile that he should have a set of followers to keep praising his greatness and boost his ego? Did the compassionate God create a devil and expects his followers to die? No other creation of his can be this stupid than his creation that is capable of thinking.

Imagine a world where all colors are white, all flowers be rose, all animals lion, all trees as palms, all faces as yours, all humans of same race, height and weight, all weather winter, all shapes squares would you appreciate God's creativity. It would be a sickening world to be but that's exactly what the ultra religious expect their God to do. It has to be their religion and their way. They demean the very God they love. They belittle God thanks to their narrow mindedness. What gives them authority to judge the creativity of this creation, God only knows. Creativity is the nature of God and there will be no dearth of creativity in this existence. It is the diversity and the combination of diversity that creates further uniqueness. 

In the absence of the promised heaven and the so called goodies in after life would the devout still love their God? Do they think God really follows a stick and carrot corporate policy? Should there be a price for such a divine love? Should there be a tag for the merciful? How else can we make it cheaper and uglier in expressing our gratitude to this ever pervading divine love? 

P.S. The creation can't be complete without this fanatic absurdness anyway. It is just another creation in existence that would be destroyed like any other!