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Salvation is for one in millions

Sage Sharabhanga could not identify Rama as God, because Rama ended in problems by blindly following the foolish desire of His wife for golden deer even though Lakshmana warned. He submitted his alive body to the fire alter for the sake of God and thus he showed highest value for God. But he could not recognize the contemporary human incarnation.

King Dhrutarashtra believed Krishna as the contemporary human incarnation but his value for God is not high before his value for his son and therefore refused the proposal of Krishna even after seeing His cosmic vision (Vishwaroopam). If you see Hanuman, He not only recognized the contemporary human incarnation as God like Dhrutarashtra, but also gave top most value to God like Sharabhanga by opening His chest with His own nails and offering the life for God. Thus, Hanuman contains merits of both Sharabhanga and Dhrutarashtra and avoided defects of both. Most of the human beings have both the defects and therefore salvation is for one in millions and that too in millions of births as per Gita.

In the statement of Jesus that unless one sacrifices all the worldly bonds including bond with life, one cannot be His dearest disciple, both these merits are indicated. Generally the inner circle-devotees of God, who are very few in number are born as devotees and get salvation, which is only a show for the devotees because they are already liberated souls.

The sage Nara was a liberated soul already associated with Lord but he was born as Arjuna, hunter and finally Vivekananda. In these three births, he represented an ordinary human being (Nara) and showed the path of salvation in the role of a devotee. Thus, the same liberated souls are born again and again and get salvation to show the path to devotees. Only one in millions after millions of births gets the real salvation and enters the inner circle of God. To achieve this goal, you have conquer the ego and jealousy in order to recognize contemporary human incarnation on one side, and on the other side you have to increase the value of God to the highest place defeating all the other worldly values including even the value of your life.

At Thy Lotus Feet His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

Anil Antony

www.universal-spirituality.org
Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Well, Islam teaches that disbelievers, apostates and hypocrites will spend an eternity in hell. So, you are probably correct if we are to take the Koran's claims of damnation for unbelievers as factual.

event horizon wrote:Well, Islam teaches that disbelievers, apostates and hypocrites will spend an eternity in hell. So, you are probably correct if we are to take the Koran's claims of damnation for unbelievers as factual.

I agree. But Quran ends there. Quran do not mention about salvation, pleasing of God, serving of GOd, cutting worldly bonds for God's sake, such high level preaching is not there in Quran. This is because the people who follow Islam are not highly devoted to God, they may be devoted to the exent that they may carryout some prayers etc and social service, but there is no element of loving practical service to God in Islam. The reason is that Islam believes God as invisible. How one can serve an invisible God!

God comes in human form in every human generation, so that eligible devotees can serve Him practically. This is a fire test. This Islam do not beleive and hence their devotion on God is not proved at all in practically! Hence their salvation from all the worldly bonds is not ensured since their extend of love on God is very little in practice.