R. D. Wrote: Pranams Maharaja, The Semitic God لله is nothing but linguistic general description of His attributes Who described Himself as impersonal.
Dear R.D., This is certainly the conclusion that has been reached by many religious leaders and scholars, who have been looking at particular sources of evidence and from a particular perspective. From their perspective or angle of vision, and the sources that they have used, this is a reasonable conclusion.
However there are entire fields and thousands of sources of evidence with which we can positively historically identify Sri Krishna-Vishnu-Paramatman as the Triune Supreme Personality, WHO was worshiped by the Semites, Africans and others in the ancient world.
Language is only one way that we can identify the One True God by His cognate Holy Names and important religious terms across thousands of years and miles. The Supreme God of NAMA-RUPA or revealed Name and Form, is not hiding from His creatures! He is continuously revealing Himself in countless Theophanies and in His Purusha Incarnations! So, the Revealed Form of God is another way that He can be identified!
However, if one is a neo-gnostic, monist impersonalist, a simple-minded and exclusivistic matter-hating monotheist, anti-incarnation, an iconoclast, or an atheist, they will never admit that God is a Person or Trinity of Persons, and that as Persons, the All-Powerful Godhead has the option of revealing Himself anytime, anyplace, anyway and in any NAME-FORM that He wants! Thus under the influence of these above-mentioned Name-Form-God-rejecting religionists and scholars, there has never been a proper study of the Nama-Rupa of the Godhead accross the Bhakti Traditions. Instead the adherents of the Bhakti Traditions have been misled by the studies of these atheists and iconoclasts etc. into believing that they are worshiping different and competing ‘Gods’. These anti-incarnational impersonalists have artificially divided humanity up into ‘white’ Aryans, Semites and Kemites/Hamites etc. By dividing up the people of God, the atheists have divided up the knowledge of their ONE GOD WHO WAS SHARED BY ALL. But, the evidence of history and prehistory is still there just waiting for us to recover and recognise its value in uniting us!
Thus it is imperative to not only present the Radha-Krishna-Balarama centric Scriptures of Vaishnavism, but to also show that these are scriptures of the SAME GOD Who was worshiped by the ancient ancestors of today’s Jews and Christians, P.L. Buddhists and Shaivites etc.!
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