An interpretation of Om

“OM, when considered as one letter, uttered by the help of one articulation, is the symbol of the Supreme Spirit. But when considered a trilateral word consisting of a, u, m, it implies the three Vedas, the three states of human nature, the divisions of the universe, and the three deities – Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, agents in the creation, preservation and destruction of this world; or, properly speaking, the three principal attributes of the Supreme Being personified in those three deities. In this sense it implies, in fact, the universe controlled by the Supreme Spirit” - Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Reinventing the Hindu Temple

Without replacing Jesus as the Central authority, without replacing Bible as the doctrine Pastor Mark Driscoll has reinvented the Christian Church with his Mars Hill Church in Seattle. Also without making it a cult and himself a Cult-head.

Which is so different from Hindu organizations with their Bhagwans, Maharajs, Sri’s and their individual interpretations of Hinduism.

I believe God is Supreme in all His Names and Incarnations, deifying Man is the highest form of foolishness and all truths can be found via rational means plus for the Hindus in the Geeta, the 2 Epics, Vedas, Puranas and the Upanishads – just like we do not worship the composers of the Vedas it’s idiotic worshiping writers of books borrowing from them.

Mars Hill presents pure Christianity without dilution or fusion in short, powerful, entertaining messages in a context and language relevant to today. We would like to learn from them to present Hinduism as is, so this is a prayer for collaborators, mentors and teachers to join us to deliver Hinduism without making it anything else – musicians, composers, lighting gurus we wait for you to join us to build the New Hindu Temple

Indra in Rig Veda

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Indra is invoked over 50 times in the 191 verses of the 1st Book of Rig Veda making Him the most powerful God of that time. Vishnu is only invoked 3 times.

Following the traditional belief that the Aryans established the Indus Valley Civilization, and pushed the original inhabitants – the Dravidians -  farther South; trying to place Rig Veda in the historic context of the Indus Valley Civilization (excavated finds) raises the question whether Rig Veda and Vedic Gods were brought to India by the Aryans, and if so what was the religion of the original Indians in 5000 BC? Are the excavated seals depicting Gods, Aryan, and if so, are the Vedas, thus Hinduism, not indigenously Indian?

Irrespective of its origins Rig Veda is a masterful composition created by immense intellect with an amazing command of language and metre, a timelessly poignant Ode to God by men not content with fate, who called their mighty God, Indra.

Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati

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ऊँ सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः । सर्वे भद्राणि पश्यन्तु मा कश्चिद् दुःखभाग्भवेत ।।

Arya Samaj is one of SarvaShiva’s guiding lights; it’s 10 principles one of the foundations of our belief system, and its founder Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati one of our Gurus.

Swami Ji battled the 1000 year old, corrupt, brutal Hindu clergy for the common Hindu who was denied access to Vedas and worship based on caste and gender. He preached Vedas in Hindi so masses could understand what was deliberately held obscure, in Sanskrit, by the Brahmins who had the monopoly of that language, thus on Word of God.

Swami Ji, along with Raja Ram Mohan Roy, was perhaps the greatest friend Hindu women have ever had. He fought Sati and Devadasi traditions. He championed womens right for education and to pray alongside men.

In his India, a slave nation for 800 years, realizing that, Vidya (education and knowledge) was the most powerful and necessary tool to propel India out of dogma and poverty, Swami Ji became a Messiah for literacy for the masses, and Arya Samaj the largest provider of formal curriculum based education at village level in Northern India, therefore Arya Samaj and Swami Ji are one of the pillars of modern India’s success as an intellect driven nation.

There is evidence of greater prosperity and social emancipation in the regions where Arya Samaj was practiced, evidently because Arya Samaj encouraged common people to learn, participate, fight ignorance by questioning the clergy, be free, be independent human beings, which they were denied for almost 800 years. Satyarth Prakash is Swami Ji’s treatise on Veda’s and Conduct of Living.

Swami Dayanand Saraswati was a Brave Warrior in a nation of cowards, and the synthesis of his teachings is:

1. God is the efficient cause of all true knowledge and all that is known through knowledge.
2. God is existent, intelligent and blissful. He is formless, omniscient, just, merciful, unborn, endless, unchangeable, beginning-less, unequalled, the support of all, the master of all, omnipresent, immanent, un-aging, immortal, fearless, eternal and holy, and the maker of all. He alone is worthy of being worshiped.
3. The Vedas are the scriptures of all true knowledge. It is the paramount duty of all Aryas to read them, teach them, recite them and to hear them being read.
4. One should always be ready to accept truth and to renounce untruth.
5. All acts should be performed in accordance with Dharma that is, after deliberating what is right and wrong.
6. The prime object of the Arya Samaj is to do good to the world, that is, to promote physical, spiritual and social good of everyone.
7. Our conduct towards all should be guided by love, righteousness and justice.
8. We should dispel Avidya (ignorance) and promote Vidya (knowledge).
9. No one should be content with promoting his/her good only; on the contrary, one should look for his/her good in promoting the good of all.
10. One should regard oneself under restriction to follow the rules of society calculated to promote the well being of all, while in following the rules of individual welfare all should be free.

SarvaShiva believes that being Hindu may not be easy because of the numerous interpretations of the numerous Books, but the 10 precepts of Arya Samaj simplify Hindu conduct and direct one to one relationship with God.