islam abduallah
Active Member
Other Hindus like me, see it as God, and Gods, so its sort of both. There is one Supreme God, and in my case its Siva, and then there are individual Gods, (Ganesha, Murugan and Hanuman might be examples) separate from Siva, assigned to do particular deeds, or jobs, if you will. So it would be like a CEO (Siva) who delegates out various tasks to well-qualified managers.
so why you call them as gods, they are just following his instructions, you may call them angels, No?
and it's finite or infinite?Creation, in Hinduism is more emanation. (Coming out of, formless into form) In a sense, because the universe is cyclic, there is no single creation time, just as there is no starting point on a circle.
So in essence, Hinduism has an very very different take on how the universe runs than western faiths. "East is east, and west is west, and ne'er the twain shall meet."