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pronouncement of God Himself. But the question is who is this God.
What are His attributes. Different saints or seers have interpreted the
existence of God differently. Sankara’s maya vadh flew in the face of
vast evidence of objects like physical manifestations in the form of
hills and oceans and seemingly endless variations of organic life
uniformly characterised by a central food canal, a neural network at the
head of the different forms of life and limbs to enable motion. A subtle
theory interprets supreme intelligence itself as permeating the
seemingly real objects akin to the mirroring of the one real source into

diverse forms and there is nothing without this super being .But Sri
Ramanuja didn’t accept the above apparently intellectual
interpretation. He on his part presented a model of the three aspects of
the universe like the animate ,inanimate and the super conscious
intelligence. He explained that every animate object is permeated by
the super power. If the principle of no second being is to be accepted
then how does one realize the existence of super power or
parabrahmam? Any knowledge to comprehend the power of super
being gained in a state of agnyana or illusion will also be an instance of
maya. At the end individual souls will not be able to realize the
existence of the super power. Only when one believes in the
manifestation of the super power in all objects and all the objects we
observe with our intellect lent to us by the supreme being only then
will the individual creatures attain unity with the supreme being.

Then question arises why would one need to have multiplicity of Gods
and Goddesses. Our seers were clear in their mind that every aspiring
soul may not have patience or capacity to comprehend the ultimate
truth It is easy to keep before us an object for worship and attain
salvation. Because we are human beings endowed with limited
intelligence or imagination we have been casting God in our image.
Because of our abundant love and a sense of gratitude to the All
powerful force we have tended to conceive Gods and Goddesses in a
variety of attire and ornaments and celebrate these Gods.

It is pertinent to believe that any super hero like Sri Rama or Sri
Krishna must have been heroes in their own right in the historic past
and we have tended to equate them with Gods and worship them as

Gods. The epics are nothing but a narration of their life history.

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