AN Moorthy Rao Let us consider how some people explain the existence of evil: “God bestowed on man, right at the time of creation, all the powers and qualities that man needed. He does not want man to be a puppet in His hands. He has, therefore, given man freedom of will. Man is free…
A.N. Moorthy Rao From the stage when man regarded nature forces and animals like the crocodile, the snake and the monkey as God, we rose to the stage of the ‘Trimurti’ concept and have presently reached the vision of a single God. We may rightly say that our cogitation has indeed progressed. It is true…
A.N. Moorthy Rao We have not succeeded in our attempt to understand the nature of God by the inductive method. Since each one of the gods that we encountered in our attempts has some shortcoming or the other, none of them could be the Supreme God, the Monarch of the Cosmos. We describe God with…
AN Moorthy Rao The issue of the superiority of Vishnu or Shiva came up incidentally. Now, let us return to our original subject. We began – didn’t we? – by considering the stories about God which are prevalent among the common people and trying to understand through them the nature of God. Now, let us…
AN Moorthy Rao It is possible that at least some of the myths mentioned above have a symbolic meaning. Whether the authors off these stories really meant to convey that meaning or they were stuffed with the significance later, it is difficult to say. Our innocent ancients did not write essays about what they learnt…
AN Moorthy Rao So far we have considered how the common man has answered the question: ‘Who is God?’ (Or, what is God?) Let us now examine the nature and antecedents of these deities on the basis of the stories put together by people. From the list of deities that we considered above, we may…
A N Moorthy Rao Ganapathi ranks between the deities just mentioned and the divine Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Maheswarahe is not a force of nature but possesses certain unique characteristics He is reverred and worshipped more than all the gods mentioned before. Not only this; He is close to us and dear to us; and…
A.N.Moorthy Rao Thousands of years ago, when self-consciousness blossomed in man and he began to look at the world around him with curiosity, what did he see? Volcanic flames leaping into the sky: molten lava racing down, reducing to ashes everything in its way: blinding lightning: forests devoured by huge fires: turbulent oceans, and…