Dear Guruji, in the Quran it is said, ‘You are god, you are one, you are eternal. You are not born nor have you given birth. Nobody and nothing is like you.’
This is confusing especially when it says, ’nobody and nothing is like you.’ Could you please say something about this?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Well, this is perfect. This is exactly what is said in the Vedas as well.
In Sanskrit it is said, ‘Ekam’, you are one, you are eternal. You are not born, you have not given birth. When nothing is born nothing dies, you are eternal.
These are the descriptions of the consciousness of the divinity. Divinity is only one, space is only one. It is never born and so it is eternal; it is peace, it is love, it is joy, it is bliss and that is what everybody is.
On one level, it is said consciousness is not body. On another higher level, it is said everything is consciousness, even that which is born. And one step further, it is said consciousness is never born nor has it created anything.
On the other hand, it is said consciousness is everything and when the body is made up of everything, everything is consciousness.
These are two different ways of describing consciousness: it is empty like space and full like the ocean.
Quran has emphasized on one aspect, the emptiness aspect, the formless aspect.
In the Vedas, they have taken the formless as well as the form also. The entire formless is also of the form only, every bubble that has arisen out of the water is also part of the water.
In Sanskrit it is said, ‘Ekam’, you are one, you are eternal. You are not born, you have not given birth. When nothing is born nothing dies, you are eternal.
These are the descriptions of the consciousness of the divinity. Divinity is only one, space is only one. It is never born and so it is eternal; it is peace, it is love, it is joy, it is bliss and that is what everybody is.
On one level, it is said consciousness is not body. On another higher level, it is said everything is consciousness, even that which is born. And one step further, it is said consciousness is never born nor has it created anything.
On the other hand, it is said consciousness is everything and when the body is made up of everything, everything is consciousness.
These are two different ways of describing consciousness: it is empty like space and full like the ocean.
Quran has emphasized on one aspect, the emptiness aspect, the formless aspect.
In the Vedas, they have taken the formless as well as the form also. The entire formless is also of the form only, every bubble that has arisen out of the water is also part of the water.
