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Hinduism Accepts Allah

Ratikanta Singh

Truth is formless and nirakar

By

Sadhu Ratan Puri

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Disclaimer

The title Hinduism accepts Allah should not be

misunderstood as accepting Islam, which is a

religion. Here the title is used considering Allah as

the same one supreme God. Very few translations

of the verses from the ancient scriptures have been

made and they are interpretations and opinion of the

author. Readers are advised to read the original

scriptures and make their own judgment when in

doubt.

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to Adi Shankara whom I

admire, and considered as Guru while joining the

Dasnami Sanyas Samaj. While just a boy he not

only had scholarly knowledge of the Vedas but was

capable of putting his knowledge to practice. The

people today who use his name and try to divide on

religious lines should know that this greatest Hindu

Saint of recent time, had accepted all the small and

big religions that existed in the Indian sub

continent; and they in turn accepted him. He could

merge many religions into Hinduism because he

knew and agreed that they are leading to the same.

And the relation with some other major religion like

Buddhism was settled amicably by accepting

Buddha as an incarnation of the God. When God is

only one, then why fight with his name.

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Acknowledgement

I thank the people who supported me during the

period I was attached to Dasnami Sanyas Samaj.

Digambar Nagasanyasy Satyanarayan Puri from

Mehsana in Gujarat had guided me into Sri

Niranjani Dasnami Sanyas Akhada in Haridwar

when he met me at Kedarnath. The person whom I

admire in the Naga Sanyasy Samaj is Digambar

Nagasanyasy Ramachandra Puri of Dariyav madi

whom I consider as among the very few pure

sanyasy worth respecting in the current period. He

also shared the opinion that the supreme resides

within us and did not display any hatred towards

other religion and was the only one in the Samaj

from whom I could hear that all religions are only

different path to the same. And finally my thanks to

the people who supported me during my period of

near isolation while outside Haridwar. Mahant

Omanand Giri the head of Nilkant Mahadev temple, ashram and Sanskrit school in Asarwa area of

Ahmadabad, and Digambar Durga Puri from

Udampur in Jammu and Kashmir.

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About The Author

Sadhu Ratan Puri had been a Sadhu attached to

Dariyav madi of Sri Niranjani Naga sanyasy

Akhada in Haridwar. His maiden name is Rahul R

W. His qualifications include a post graduation in

banking and a qualified membership in Professional

Risk Manager’s International Association. He is a

believer in single supreme God in nirakar that is

without any particular form or attributes. Some

readers may initially feel the author is trying to tilt

towards another religion by speaking about formless

God. No; but formless God is the truth and is

substantiated in this book. The author is a firm

supporter and believer of Advaita Vedanta and

personally took the path of material sacrifice to seek

and experience this knowledge.

The author feels such a book is necessary

seeing many places of worship being

commercialized. It started with a few rich who are willing to pay for special treatment and ticket in

places of worship but today the new generation

employees too have added to the band wagon of

ticket buying worshippers. Some most reputed

jyotir linga temples and even the greatest Vishnu

temples sell tickets as if they are a multiplex theatre.

Do you know when one person with ticket is

allowed fast entry to watch the idol; it is naturally

by delaying the poor who stands without a ticket. It

is also very pity and shameful that we can see a

builder can simply construct a temple structure on


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the roadside and prevent his illegal building behind

from being demolished. Fools are the people who

think god immediately goes and sits in inside a

temple looking structure on the roadside built by an

unscrupulous builder with a bad intend. The real

god is within you and everywhere.

The physical structures are part of the illusion

created by him. Let us worship in temples only if

they are built with pure intentions and run without

commercial objective with equal treatment to all.

The author feels pity that commercialization of

Hindu places of worship has reached the most

ancient and purest temples in the Himalayas and

also this commercialization has encompassed the

once pure Naga sanyasy sect of which this author

had been a part earlier. We got out Hindu places of

worship from the hands of a particular upper caste

but now it looks like it is going into the hands of

business class.

So he encourages worship of pure form less or

nirakar all encompassing God who is everywhere

and you can worship from anywhere. A section of

people who make their living by running a place of

worship as a business may not find this book

suitable but this is the truth and readers will be

convinced.

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About The Book

This book in does not put any religion in the

negative but only convincingly puts forward an

argument that in Hinduism also God is formless.

Many of you are not aware that idol worship in

Hinduism was no there in the beginning when the

religion began and it was added later by several

sages for reasons I have given below. Personally I

believe the whole system of current worship in

Hinduism would have been different if people had

the capability to understand and the subject of

Advaita Vedanta.

The knowledge of which is above all other

Vedas. In Hinduism knowledge of Vedas is not the

highest knowledge, but the highest knowledge is the

knowledge of self, as knowledge about self is the

only way we can know about the Supreme.

Understanding that Hinduism got drifted away from

the original worship of formless god to idol worship is very easy. Just look at Saint Sai Baba of Shirdi

who lived a simple life just a century ago and is

today worshipped by millions of Hindus with lot of

temples dedicated to him.

This is an example of how Hinduism got

drifted away over the thousands of years it existed,

from the original concept of formless one supreme

God. We will also have a detailed explanation of

energy, which in Hinduism was the other half of

God, also created by him and known as goddesses

or Shakti. The subject of energy has been explained


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in detail in the book because the author states if

anything cannot be classified as energy then it is

only the one and only one supreme God. The two

combined and give us all the illusion which is the

world we see and believe.

There is a chapter which compares science as

just another religion and searching for something

within the illusion. Hinduisms ancient concept

about superior living beings in another time zone in

a bigger world around which our entire solar system

rotates also gives a hint for those searching alien

life, but definitely this too is not mentioned to be in

human or animal forms that should be visible to our

eyes. There are verses in the Vedas and in

Bhagavad Gita too which clearly points toward an

all encompassing formless God.

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Index of Topics

S.No. Content

1. About the author

2. About the book

3. Hinduism as I interpreted

4. Seven Sages or Saptarishis

5. Vedas and formless God

6. Upanishads

7. Puranas

8. Bhagavad Gita and formless God.

9. Advaita Vedanta for seekers of truth.

10. Energy is everything other than God

11. Sri-Vidya Tantra for separating

energy from us.

12. Energy and God names.

13. The truth about astrology

14. Reason for Buddhism’s rise from

Hinduism

15. Brief on Adi Shankara and Sai.

16. Science is a religion seeking within illusion

17. The conclusion as one formless God

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Hinduism as I interpreted

I understood original Hinduism describes God as

“He is one, the eternal, absolute and he neither

begets nor is born, nor is there to him any

equivalent”. If these words have similarity to another

major religion and it is true because God is only one.

In Vishnu Purana we find Lord Vishnu is

praised immensely and Lord Shiva is treated as

secondary. But if you look at Shiva Purana, Lord

Shiva is immensely praised and the same goes with

Devi Bhagavata. This was done to create in the

aspirant an intense unquestionable faith in his

favorite deity. Because in Hinduism we may worship

the same God in any form that we believe. If I have

mentioned God as him then that should not be taken

as a masculine character but used only because in

Hinduism energy is considered in feminine form. We

all know that energy does not physically look like a

female even though it is considered as feminine by

religious principles.

Hinduism is the most ancient religion and when

we know majority people were illiterates till recent

years, it was difficult for humanity more than five

thousand years ago to understand some things exist

without physical form let alone God. And it was then

that our ancient sages brought in the worship of

idols. In the recent available history one of the

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biggest flag bearers of Hinduism whom I greatly

admire, Jagad Guru Adi Shankaracharya (The

original who lived around 1200 years ago) also

continued and promoted worship of Shiva Linga. But

again some of you may not be aware that the same

Adi Shankara was the biggest preacher of Advaita

Vedanta. A fact that he too believed and understood

God, as only one and all encompassing pure and

without any attributes with which to define. It is true

that Hinduism allows worship of God in the form of

Idols. So did he set up Shiva temples and promoted

worship of Linga to reinstate Hinduism when many

people were tilting towards Buddhism. Because as

we know even in his era majority people were

backward and not literate so it was easier to convince

them in worshipping a visible idol rather than an

invisible all encompassing supreme.

The Advaita Vedanta mentions that in reality

only God exists and everything else is illusionary, I

would further clarify this illusion as in the form of

energy which makes for everything that we see and

physically experience. And further to this as per me

our science and research are all within this energy so

however far we advance in science it is within this

illusion and the reality that is God who created it is

separate. It is not uncommon to find some highly

educated scientists finally joining as seekers of truth.

For all of you who worship god imagining him

to be a very good looking physical form with lots of

ammunitions and adorable things in his hands and

body, let me tell you that all these attributes that you

provide him with are there because your mind is

capable of only material attributes and desires, the



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material attributes include physical body. In reality

god is without any attributes and can be said to be

pure, purer or purest. The material things and desires

are all energy which he himself created, this changes

in form with time. But today with material desires

topping, most people prefer to worship energy which

they mention as his other half. The feminine form

which we normally characterize as being beside with

God is actually energy (Shakti) and it is this

combination that makes the entire world we see and

experience. It is true that putting this material desires

into the creations was also the will of god. It is

because of the material desires that we have created

all that we can see and including our son or daughter

for that matter.

Some people have a query that if God exists,

then why there are crimes and sufferings? Why

everything is not perfect and always good? This

query did not arise just for people like us; but even

the religion of Buddhism got founded because a

person had this query. Let me tell you that

everything is perfect and always good for those who

have been liberated and are one with him. The

person doing the crime is also him, and the person

suffering is also him; but he does not experience any

of it. This is the illusion that I have mentioned

repeatedly in the book. The great illusion linked to

mind. The theory of karma is also related to this. I

have mentioned karma in the paragraph under

energy, and for a person who is liberated; there is

neither the good karma left nor the bad. It is all

wiped out. Now many of you might have earlier read

about the word liberated or being one with God and


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will definitely accept this statement. But do you

think it is possible for any person to be one with a

god who looks like us or be one with a stone idol for

that matter; definitely not; and this is possible

because God if formless or nirakar and all

encompassing.

For providing you an example of this illusion,

take the poorest person in the richest countries of

Europe and they may outwardly seem to us as

happier than the poorest person in Africa or South

Asia. But scientifically analyze their inner feelings

or state of mind and you will find that they are

exactly in the same situation.

All religions have migrated away from the

purest forms thoughts with which their founders

have had created them. This is mainly because every

century sees a powerful political, military, or other

influential leader who interpret the religion in his

own way.

The Hindu religion which is called Sanatan

Dharma or eternal order is so ancient that nobody

can predict when it began and as like any other

religion it too had infinite number of religious or

other powerful people who interpreted it in his own

way or to his own advantage. Here I would highlight

a major example, in many ancient texts and even

Advaita Vedanta the word Brahman was used to

address the supreme God and the only one; but a

particular community which earlier dominated the

Hindu religion began to call themselves as Brahmin.

While the major factor that motivated creating

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more reasons like some verses in Yajur Veda

mentions,

“He is body less and pure”

And in another chapter of the same Veda it is

mentioned that there is no image of Him. Another

holy book the Bhagavad Gita on several occasions

mentions to worship only the supreme. It is also

mentioned in Gita “My original full form cannot be

seen by your these eyes”. Another quote from

Bhagavad Gita,

“He who knows me as the unborn, as the

beginning-less, as the Supreme Lord of all the

worlds”

Prajapatis were a group of deities created by

God and who are in fact part of him, for procreation

and protection of life. The three main Prajapati were

Lord Brahma for creation, Lord Vishnu for

protection and Lord Shiva for destruction or

dissolution. They are also considered as the three

main Gods by Hindus and are called trinity or

trimoorthy. Brahma needed many more hands for

creation and he created many more Prajapatis from

himself and they were called mind born sons .They

included the Saptarishis. And we cannot conclude

that these Rishis were in human form, because some

of them is said to have fathered Brahaspathi, Asuras,

Demons, Indra and Devas, so in short they were

responsible for most of the creations and not just

humanity but also the aliens.

Hinduism is among the oldest civilizations and

with no original history to prove when it began.

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worshipping God in the name that you believe him;

but this over hundreds of generations have made

people drift away from the truth that god is formless.

This is the idea that the only one supreme God takes

many different forms, and that although individuals

may worship several different gods and goddesses,

they really revere but one Supreme Being.

The three main names for God is Brahma for

creation, Vishnu for protection and Shiva for

dissolving or known as the destroyer. But one

interesting thing here is that while you read Shiva is

known as the god for destroying or dissolving we

will find that the maximum temples are related to

Shiva. There should definitely be some reason

behind this and we have mentioned a few in the later

pages.

Once a disciple asked sage Angirasa about the

real knowledge by which everything could be known

and to this the sage explained the difference between

higher knowledge and lower knowledge and lower

self and higher self. The lower knowledge was of the

Vedas and scriptures and the higher knowledge was

the knowledge of the self and God, by which we also

understand about immortality. Sage Angirasa is

known as the father of Brahaspathi who is

considered as the guru of devas.

To make the subject of formless God and

drifting away of Hinduism from the original more

convincing, I will include a small note about the

preaching’s of Original Jagad Guru Adi

Shankaracharya who lived around 1200 years ago,

about and also the now very popular Shirdi Sai Baba.

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world is only God and the Energy which he created.

A brief about the Sri Vidya Tantra that I understood

was practiced to separate energy from the individual

self. It was believed that by separating energy the

individual experienced the divine. Yes energy

includes the feeling of physical body, mind and time.

Another important and very interesting matter is

just as we have a parliament and ministers to run our

country; In Hinduism and as per the Vedas the

activities on earth was believed to be controlled by

the Devas. Don’t confuse Devas with the supreme

God. Indra dev is said to be the king of the Devalok

(kingdom of devas) and Agni dev in charge for fire,

similarly Varuna dev for water, Kama dev for love

etc. Our solar system including sun is believed to be

circulating around this devalok. So our one year is

just one day for devas. Surely there is some science

here and our science is yet to catch up with this.

Now to provide a validity and convincing proof

to the belief of formless or nirakar God let us learn

something more about Hinduism, which I too

consider and practice as a way of living were

different people worship God in different names and

with different beliefs as to his appearance. We will

have a note about the Vedas, the Upanishads and the

still later Puranas. The philosophy of Advaita

Vedanta is mentioned in detail including the steps

for attaining the same. We will begin with the great

Saptarishis or seven sages because of the importance

attributed to them in creation and some of them are

believed to have fathered the Devas including Indra,

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All of us including you are in reality an

incarnation of the God. This is because there is no

life without him. The difference is that some among

you may become aware of this reality and some

further gets a small pie of the unlimited power of

God, and over a period this small difference is

exaggerated by the near and dear ones or some

others with their interest or even devotion. I accept

all the incarnations of lord Vishnu as mentioned in

Hinduism; but we should note one thing here that the

last incarnations are worshipped more than the

earlier ones. Similarly the latest deities to our god

list are getting more worshippers than the earlier

ones.

In the south Lord Ayyappa is believed to be son

of the God’s incarnation as Mohini with Lord Shiva

as father. But that incarnation happened millions of

years ago and Lord Ayyappa was born just thousand

years ago. It was one of the most unexpected and the

most hurting situation for millions of Ayyappa

Swami Devotees when a Kerala Devasom board

confirmed to Supreme Court that the Makara Jyothi

that appears on the edge of the Ponnabalamedu hill

(on the 14th of January, every year) at Sabarimala is

artificially done by them. This is not a private board

and is indirectly controlled by government with their

nominees. That whole state is economically and

politically dominated by other religions or at least

equally; but the state earns a lot of revenue from the

pilgrimage to this place. This is a clear example of

how not just private individuals are commercializing

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following Hinduism, but even some governments

are trying to make a mockery of us.

Nobody can say that Lord Ayyappa or even

Saint Sai Baba had millions of devotees or temples

about thousand years back when they were not even

born. We accept it or not they have become part of

our big list of Gods. They may be worth

worshipping; and Hinduism allows worship of God

in whatever name you believe him. But do not forget

the fact that you are worshipping the same one God

who is formless and nirakar in reality.

It is normally accepted by Hindus today to

worship in some of the Dargahs. But what are these

Dargahs? These are shrines built over the grave of

some popular Muslim saints. These saints lived all

their life worshipping Allah. When we are able to

accept and worship these saints; why not accept their

supreme God, whom these saints worshipped?

Now after providing my brief personal

interpretation of Hinduism, I need to ask you one

question. We all know or believe that even the pig

which we consider a dirty animal, is created by god,

and if you expect it to worship God; in what form do

you expect it to worship?

A wise man will give an answer as Varaha

Swami; I too believe and accept that Varaha Swami

was an incarnation of the Lord. But now instead of

asking how a bovine worships, if ask how a donkey

also created by god, will worship him. What will this

wise man answer?

In my opinion God should be first in our mind

and not religion. You can even pray to the supreme


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without any religion. This statement is necessary

because if we follow a religion we are at the mercy

of those controlling that religion today. The opinion

about the people controlling a religion is left to the

readers.

I accept the truth that God is without any form

or attributes. This universe is my mind and my mind

is the universe. God is the truth and the universe is

not in truth.

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