Theism in general contains within it the propostion that God and God's energies constitute everything. The next question involves the relationship between God and God's energies. If we say that these two categories are utterly identical, then we're logic-bound to a pantheistic view. I have not...
If God is summoning energy that previously didn't belong to God, then we're violating the very concept of God. Another poster (on the first page of this thread) quoted the Sri Isopanisad: Isavasyam idam sarvam, which relates that God is the owner/controller of all potencies. This is the basic...
No. You're talking about panetheism. I'm just following the logic set forth by you.
How are they incorrect?
If you don't say that God is completely and utterly transcendent, but you do hold God to be transcendent, then are you a panentheist? What other options are there?
Then that makes...
I suppose I should clarify that I am also able to distinguish the two in basic concept. What I mean to say is that I cannot see how one doesn't end up entailing the other.
Increase or decrease within the system of a creation/universe, the energy necessarily coexists with an eternal God...
I am describing a simultaneous oneness and distinction between God and God's energies. Panentheism doesn't entail that creation is utterly separate from creator. It is basically pantheism with a further clarification on the relationship between creator and creation.
Nothing exists or can exist beyond God and His energies. So, yes, everything is a manifestation of God's pre-existing energies. Furthermore, you can't say that God and God's energies are one and the same and then turn around and claim that God is completely and utterly transcendent to the...
I don't see the difference between "everything is a manifestation of God's pre-existing energies" and panentheism. God's energies are simultaneously an extension of Him and non-different from Him, thus making the ontology entail that God is both immanent and transcendent.
God's energies do...
I figured I'd be ruffling some feathers here. You too are free to your beliefs. And at the end of the day, you believe what you believe regardless of what you call it. To be clear, I'm not saying that one cannot or should not believe in the way typically entailed by polytheism. I'm just not sure...
I am unable to take so-called polytheism seriously unless it is fashioned as such to ultimately allude to a singularity. In the most superficial sense, a hindu, for instance, is polytheist. But in actuality, a hindu is monotheist. As far as I can see, a true, non-monotheistic polytheist is...
For the panentheists here,
Do you find it difficult to view monotheism in a way that is not panentheist? Ever since I have developed my understanding of the subject matter to the point of identifying with panentheism, I am unable to see how a monotheist isn't necessarily also a panentheist...
Everything is made up of God's energies. The relationship between God (the Energetic) and His energies is summed up for us (Gaudiya Vaisnavas) in Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's "achintya bhedabheda" philosophy, which means "inconceivably one and different." There is no separating God and God's...
No. Not as a proof. As an explanation.
This isn't what Srila Prabhupada is saying in the Sri Isopanisad. What is being said is that those who worship the impersonal aspect of the Absolute are entering the darkest region. And the explanation for this is given in the purport for verse 12. This...
If a text in another language has a word that directly translates to "writing utensil" and another text related to that one indicates a pencil. Then is isn't unreasonable to simply translate the first text as "pencil."
In this context, sambhutim refers to that which is "born" or "manifest"...
Kujastha. This notion comes about by the process of stripping away the mutable layers to reveal the "steady" conscious entity underlying. It is the realization of meditative sages. I don't know that the self "needs" to be unchanging as if there is some string of logic that necessitates it. The...