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SEPTEMBER 09, 2017 – CHAIRMAN MAO’S LEGACY LIVES – UNFINISHED KOREA-VIETNAM WAR

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SEPTEMBER 09, 2017 – CHAIRMAN MAO’S LEGACY LIVES – UNFINISHED KOREA-VIETNAM WAR

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On September 09, 2017 Chairman Mao Zedong’s Legacy lives. Unfinished Korea-Vietnam War is mere symptom of ‘The Cold War in Asia’ which started with Communist takeover of mainland China. In Korean Peninsula, the US faces security challenge posed by the spread of Communism in Asia. It is not surprising to note that Vietnam recognizes the same threat and is willing to cooperate with the United States to contain Expansionist Doctrine formulated by Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong.
Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada
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CHAIRMAN MAO DIES – SEPTEMBER 09, 1976

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1976
On this day in 1976, Chinese revolutionary and statesman Mao Zedong, who had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease and other health problems, dies in Beijing at the age of 82. The Communist leader and founder of the People’s Republic of China is considered one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.
Mao was born into a peasant family in the village of Shaoshan in China’s Hunan province on December 26, 1893. During the 1911 Revolution, he was a soldier in the revolutionary army, which eventually defeated the Qing Dynasty. After serving in the army, he resumed his education and eventually moved to Beijing, where he studied Marxist social and political thought. In 1921, he attended the first session of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which was held in Shanghai. He went on to found the Hunan branch of the CCP and organize workers’ strikes. Marxism held that cultural revolution would be brought about by urban workers; however, Mao came to believe that China’s millions of peasants were the key to change.
In 1934, during his long civil war with Chiang Kai-Shek and his nationalist government, Mao broke through enemy lines and led his followers on the Long March, a trek of some 6,000 miles to northern China. There, he built up his Red Army and fought against the Japanese invaders. In 1945, civil war resumed, and in 1949 the Nationalists were defeated. On October 1, 1949, Mao proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Under Mao’s leadership, the Communist Party took control of China’s media and executed its political enemies, including business owners, landlords, former government officials and intellectuals. In 1958, Mao launched the Great Leap Forward, an economic initiative aimed at boosting the country’s agricultural and industrial production. The program involved the establishment of large farming communes, which would free up more workers for industrial jobs. Instead, the plan failed as grain production declined and millions of Chinese died due to famine. In 1966, Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, in an attempt to wipe out China’s old customs and ideas, promote Mao’s teachings and purge the Communist party of his political enemies. Mao urged students and other young people to join the Red Guards, who in turn shut down schools, churches, temples and museums and tortured or killed academics and other authority figures who were viewed as capitalists and anti-revolutionaries. The Cultural Revolution resulted in widespread chaos and civil unrest.
Despite these failures, Mao maintained fanatical followers all across China and, as the founder of modern China, remains one of the most influential figures of the 20th century. After his death, Deng Xiaoping emerged as China’s leader. Today, Mao’s embalmed remains are housed in a mausoleum in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

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Cold War
1976
Mao Zedong Dies
Mao Zedong, who led the Chinese people through a long revolution and then ruled the nation’s communist government from its establishment in 1949, dies. Along with V.I. Lenin and Joseph Stalin, Mao was one of the most significant communist figures of the Cold War.
Vietnam War
1967
Hackney receives Medal of Honor

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Sergeant Duane D. Hackney is presented with the Air Force Cross for bravery in rescuing an Air Force pilot in Vietnam. He was the first living Air Force enlisted man to receive the award, the nation’s second highest award for bravery in action.

1969

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Ho Chi Minh buried in Hanoi

Funeral services, attended by 250,000 mourners, are held for Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh Square. Among those in attendance were Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, Chinese Vice-Premier Li Hsien-nien and Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. Ho had established the Indochinese Communist Party in 1929.
1972

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DeBellevue becomes leading American Ace
U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles B. DeBellevue (Weapons Systems Officer) flying with his pilot, Capt. John A. Madden, in a McDonnell Douglas F-4D, shoots down two MiG-19s near Hanoi. These were Captain DeBellevue’s fifth and sixth victories, which made him the leading American ace (an unofficial designation awarded for…

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SEPTEMBER 08, 2017 – THE COLD WAR IN ASIA – UNFINISHED KOREA-VIETNAM WAR

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SEPTEMBER 08, 2017 – THE COLD WAR IN ASIA – UNFINISHED KOREA-VIETNAM WAR

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On September 08, 2017, I live in Ann Arbor, Michigan which hosts President Gerald R. Ford’s Presidential Library on the University of Michigan North Campus. I was serving US President Ford on September 08, 1974 as member of Special Frontier Force while Ford granted pardon to Nixon.
The United States missed an opportunity to investigate Nixon-Kissinger Vietnam Treason. The Cold War in Asia was placed on the backburner without resolving the problem posed by spread of Communism in Asia.

Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada
DOOM DOOMA DOOMSAYER

FORD PARDONS NIXON – SEPTEMBER 08, 1974

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In a controversial executive action, President Gerald Ford pardons his disgraced predecessor Richard M. Nixon for any crimes he may have committed or participated in while in office. Ford later defended this action before the House Judiciary Committee, explaining that he wanted to end the national divisions created by the Watergate scandal.
The Watergate scandal erupted after it was revealed that Nixon and his aides had engaged in illegal activities during his reelection campaign–and then attempted to cover up evidence of wrongdoing. With impeachment proceedings underway against him in Congress, Nixon bowed to public pressure and became the first American president to resign. At noon on August 9, Nixon officially ended his term, departing with his family in a helicopter from the White House lawn. Minutes later, Vice President Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th president of the United States in the East Room of the White House. After taking the oath of office, President Ford spoke to the nation in a television address, declaring, “My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.”
Ford, the first president who came to the office through appointment rather than election, had replaced Spiro Agnew as vice president only eight months before. In a political scandal independent of the Nixon administration’s wrongdoings in the Watergate affair, Agnew had been forced to resign in disgrace after he was charged with income tax evasion and political corruption. Exactly one month after Nixon announced his resignation, Ford issued the former president a “full, free and absolute” pardon for any crimes he committed while in office. The pardon was widely condemned at the time.
Decades later, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation presented its 2001 Profile in Courage Award to Gerald Ford for his 1974 pardon of Nixon. In pardoning Nixon, said the foundation, Ford placed his love of country ahead of his own political future and brought needed closure to the divisive Watergate affair. Ford left politics after losing the 1976 presidential election to Democrat Jimmy Carter. Ford died on December 26, 2006, at the age of 93.

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Cold War
1945

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American troops arrive in Korea to partition the country
U.S. troops land in Korea to begin their postwar occupation of the southern part of that nation, almost exactly one month after Soviet troops had entered northern Korea to begin their own occupation. Although the U.S. and Soviet occupations were supposed to be temporary, the division of Korea quickly became permanent.

Presidential
1974
President Ford pardons former President Nixon
On this day in 1974, President Gerald Ford, who assumed office on the heels of President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation, pardons his predecessor for his involvement in the Watergate scandal. Congress had accused Nixon of obstruction of justice during the investigation of the Watergate scandal, which began in 1972.

Vietnam War

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1954
SEATO established
Having been directed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to put together an alliance to contain any communist aggression in the free territories of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, or Southeast Asia in general, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles forges an agreement establishing a military alliance that becomes the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization.
1968

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Vietnam War
ARVN general killed
Troung Quang An becomes the first South Vietnamese general killed in action when his aircraft is shot down. The commander of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division (more popularly known as the ‘Big Red One”), Maj. Gen. Keith L. Ware, suffered a similar fate when his helicopter was shot down…

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SEPTEMBER 07, 2017 – THE COLD WAR IN ASIA – UNCLE SAM’S UNFINISHED KOREA-VIETNAM WAR

On September 07, 2017 Uncle Sam’s Korea-Vietnam War remains unfinished. Uncle Sam’s real Enemy is neither Korea nor Vietnam. The real Enemy is the threat of spread of Communism in Asia. Nixon-Kissinger paved the way for Communist China’s admission to the United Nations and as Permanent Member of UN Security Council. Uncle Sam will never get the opportunity again to pass resolution in the United Nations for the use of force to repel the Communist North Korea.

Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada
DOOM DOOMA DOOMSAYER

UNITED NATIONS DEFEATS SOVIET MOTION – SEPTEMBER 07, 1950

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Cold War

1950
Slightly more than two months after the United Nations approved a U.S. resolution calling for the use of force to repel the communist North Korean invasion of South Korea, the Security Council rejects a Soviet resolution that would condemn the American bombing of North Korea. The Security Council action was another victory for the United States in securing U.N. support for the war in Korea.
In June 1950, armed forces from communist North Korea attacked South Korea. Days after the invasion, the United States secured approval in the U.N.’s Security Council for a resolution calling for the use of force to repel the communists. The Soviet Union could have vetoed the resolution, but its representatives were boycotting the Security Council because of the U.N. decision not to seat the communist government of the People’s Republic of China. Just a few days after the Security Council resolution was passed, President Harry S. Truman ordered U.S. military forces into South Korea. The introduction of the U.S. forces turned the tide of the war, and by September 1950, the North Korean forces were in retreat and U.S. planes were bombing military targets inside North Korea. On September 7, the Soviet representative on the Security Council proposed a resolution condemning the United States for its “barbarous” bombing of North Korea. Referring to U.S. policies in Korea as “Hitlerian,” the Russian representative called the bombings “inhuman.” The U.S. representative responded by charging the North Koreans with numerous war crimes, including murdering prisoners of war. He also denied that the bombings were “inhuman,” insisting that the United States was using every effort to warn North Korean civilians to stay away from the military targets being hit. He concluded by stating, “The moral is plain: Those who sow the wind will reap the whirlwind. Moral guilt rests heavily upon the aggressors.” By a vote of 9 to 1, the Security Council defeated the Soviet resolution, with only the Russian representative voting to support it.
The Security Council defeat of the Russian resolution was another victory for the United States in securing U.N. support for the war effort in Korea. This war marked the first time the United Nations had ever approved the use of force, and U.S. officials were determined to maintain U.N. support for what was, in effect, a U.S. military effort. America supplied the vast majority of the ground, air, and sea forces that responded to the Security Council’s resolution calling for the use of force in Korea. The Soviets, sensing the grave consequences of their absence from the vote on that resolution, now desperately tried to attack U.S. actions in Korea. As they discovered with the crushing defeat of their resolution condemning the U.S. bombings, it was too late.

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1813
United States nicknamed Uncle Sam
On this day in 1813, the United States gets its nickname, Uncle Sam. The name is linked to Samuel Wilson, a meat packer from Troy, New York, who supplied barrels of beef to the United States Army during the War of 1812.Wilson (1766-1854) stamped the barrels with “U.S.” for United…
Vietnam War

1965
Marines launch Operation Piranha
U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese forces launch Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula, 23 miles south of the Marine base at Chu Lai. This was a follow-up to Operation Starlight, which had been conducted in August. During the course of the operation, the Allied forces stormed a stronghold…

1967

McNamara Line announced
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announces plans to build an electronic anti-infiltration barrier to block communist flow of arms and troops into South Vietnam from the north at the eastern end of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The “McNamara Line,” as it became known, would employ state-of-the-art, high-tech…

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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 01, 2017 – BEIJING DOOMED – A STONE’S THROW AWAY

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 01, 2017 – BEIJING DOOMED – A STONE’S THROW AWAY

I am not an expert on asteroid strikes. But, in my analysis, Beijing awaits her Doom as the word ‘EVIL’ means Disaster, Catastrophe, Cataclysm, Doom, and Apocalypse.

Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada

DOOM DOOMA DOOMSAYER

HUGE 2.7-MILE LONG ASTEROID SET FOR EARTH FLYBY

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A massive 2.7-mile long asteroid is set to pass by Earth Friday. There’s no need to worry, though – the asteroid, dubbed Florence, will pass at a safe distance of 4.4 million miles, roughly 18 times the distance between Earth and the Moon.

“While many known asteroids have passed by closer to Earth than Florence will on September 1, all of those were estimated to be smaller,” said Paul Chodas, manager of NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. in a statement. “Florence is the largest asteroid to pass by our planet this close since the NASA program to detect and track near-Earth asteroids began.”

The asteroid, which is named in honor of Florence Nightingale, was discovered in 1981. Friday’s flyby will be Earth’s closest encounter with the asteroid since 1890, and the closest it will be to our planet until after 2500.

EARTH COULD BE HIT BY SURPRISE ASTEROID STRIKE, EXPERT WARNS

Florence has been assigned an asteroid catalog number of 3122.

While ground-based radar will closely observe the giant space rock, NASA says that the asteroid will also be visible to small telescopes. Sky & Telescope reports that Florence reaches peak brightness late on Thursday and early on Friday, it will remain bright for several days. 8 p.m. EDT on Saturday Sept. 2 will be a particularly good time to view the asteroid, it says.

Earlier this year, a skyscraper-sized asteroid named (441987) 2010 NY65 flew past Earth at about eight times the distance between Earth and the moon.

ASTEROID THAT KILLED DINOSAURS MAY HAVE DARKENED EARTH FOR TWO YEARS

Last year NASA opened a new office to track asteroids and comets that come too close to Earth. The Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) formalizes the agency’s existing program for detecting and tracking near-Earth Objects, known as NEOs. The office is located within NASA’s Planetary Science Division, which is in the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington and works with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other federal agencies and departments.

NASA has been working on planetary defense for some time – its Near-Earth Object Observations Program already works with astronomers and scientists around the world to look for asteroids that could harm Earth.

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MAO ZEDONG DEAD WRONG IN TIBET

Communist China’s Eulogy of Ren Rong, Political Commissar of Tibet Whitewashes history of Oppression in Tibet initiated by Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong.

Mao Zedong died in 1976 but his policy of Oppression and Suppression of Tibet survives today. Mao Zedong Dead Wrong in Tibet.

Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada

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NOTHING RONG IN TIBET – HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Clipped from: https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/08/24/nothing-rong-tibet

China’s Eulogy Whitewashes Past Oppression

The Chinese national flag is raised during a ceremony marking the 96th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, July 1, 2017.

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Addressing its abusive past has never been a strength for the Chinese Communist Party, particularly in hotspots like Tibet. If anything, the party has become increasingly strident in defending its record in that region. In 2009, for instance, authorities decided to make March 28, the anniversary of the introduction of “democratic reform” after the flight of the Dalai Lama in 1959, an annual holiday to celebrate “serf liberation.” Perhaps it’s this mindset that explains a recent article noting the June death of Tibet’s former political commissar, Ren Rong.

A lifelong soldier, veteran of the 1934-35 Long March and of the anti-Japanese, and Korean wars, Rong became political commissar of the Tibet Military District in 1967. Under Chairman Mao Zedong, he ascended during the Cultural Revolution, one of the bloodiest periods of Communist rule, as a broker between the People’s Liberation Army and rival political factions. He would therefore have helped oversee the suppression of the 1969 uprisings across the Tibet Autonomous Region and the imposition of martial law in 1970. Over the course of that campaign, authorities publicly executed hundreds of people, while many thousands were imprisoned or publicly humiliated with “counter-revolutionary hats.” He became the region’s party secretary in 1971.

Yet Rong’s and others’ rule was so heavy-handed it prompted a rare public apology by the party’s general secretary, Hu Yaobang, during a 1980 visit to the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. Hu – thought of as a reformer – promised change, especially the withdrawal of more than half the Chinese Party members and government staff, and removed Rong from office. Yet the party never acknowledged Hu’s initiative, which was later emphatically reversed – to the extent that now even Rong appears to be back in favor.

His eulogy, written in the name of Ragdi, one of his protégés, lauds his, “sweat, determination and…glorious deeds.” It concludes with no apparent irony that the, “masses of all nationalities in Tibet can never forget him.” The decision to honor a strongman associated with one of the darkest chapters of Maoist rule suggests an ever-bolder approach by the Communist Party under President Xi Jinping to whitewash history, the history that fuels unrest in Tibet to this day.

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SPIRITUALITY SCIENCE – LOVE DEFINED AS FUNDAMENTAL FORCE

Reading books and scriptures is not really required to formulate belief in God. In fact, most men have primary belief in God with or without any learning exposure to scriptures. Such learning experience is not required.

However, groups who identify themselves as ‘Rationalists’ claim that belief in God is ‘irrational’ and they provide scientific information such as ‘The Theory of Evolution’ to reject the concept of God. I respond to their argument using verified scientific information to share my view to claim ‘God is Rational’. I verify Constitutive and Regulative Principles involved in maintaining human existence.

I was introduced to scriptures as Indian Traditions promote such dispersal of knowledge by holding meetings or gatherings where scriptures are read. In School, and College, I read parts of scripture as such learning is needed for Language Arts Courses.

In Bible, Jesus describes God’s Love and mentions that His Father makes Sun to rise and sends rain.

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To account for man’s existence, I have to explain the nature of existence that demands synchronization with alternating periods of light and darkness called Day and Night. But, in reality, there is no Sunrise and Sunset. If God makes Sun to rise, God may have to apply Force/Power to cause that Natural Phenomenon. I describe ‘LOVE’ as Fundamental Force, the Force applied by God to cause Earth to spin around its axis. No other Fundamental Force can fully account for Earth’s Rotational Spin. Each planet, and each heavenly body exhibits rotational spin which makes it distinct, original, or one of its own kind. Without Sunrise, man cannot perform his rhythmic biological functions. It is Sun that sends rain for Sun’s heat operates Water or Hydrologic Cycle.

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Colonel B K Narayan of Indian Army served in Indian Embassy at Cairo, Egypt as military attache during the presidency of Nasser and Anwar al Sadat. President Sadat sponsored Colonel Narayan’s Hajj pilgrimage and it was duly approved by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Religious Affairs which sanctions and controls Hajj Affairs. Colonel Narayan’s Hajj proves that Muslims are Rational, Quran is Rational, and Allah is Rational. God knows His humble servants. Colonel Narayan died on Sunday, May 02, 2004 in Military Hospital of Bahrain.

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Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4162 USA
SPECIAL FRONTIER FORCE

LOVE – FUNDAMENTAL FORCE

I like the view shared by Dr. Manbir Singh. Religion, Faith, and Belief condition man and demand man to confirm his Faith and Belief to an independent Observer. Sikh Faith is firmly associated with Five Acts of Faith. Just citing verses from Guru Granth Sahib and its comparison to Vedas, etc., will not describe the reality of Sikh in physical World. The Faith is not in the Book. The Faith is verification of Human Body that is infused with the Faith. There should be correspondence between Human Body and its Faith.

Similarly, I may know Quran and in my physical appearance I resemble average Pakistani Muslim of Hyderabad (Sindh) for I can speak Urdu having lived in Hyderabad (Deccan). Many Pakistani Muslims treat me with warmth for they think that I may belong to Hyderabad(Sindh). Once, a Pakistani man politely inquired about my native place and I responded to him by saying, “Is that something that you need to verify?” He immediately apologized saying that I indeed belong to his place. But, the fact of being Muslim can only be verified by mark or sign of Circumcision. The verification is not in Quran. The verification pertains to my body and an independent observer can attest to the finding.

But, God’s Love remains Unconditioned for God does not demand man to express Love of God. Man is free to reject God or even Hate God.

I apply the principles of Natural Science like Physics to account for existence of man in physical World. Apart from the Four Fundamental Forces, Love manifests itself as Fifth Fundamental Force with no concern for man’s just or unjust actions. For God is Rational, Man chooses God for any other choice would be irrational.

Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada

Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4162 USA
SPECIAL FRONTIER FORCE

From: Dr. Manbir Singh:

Man may read and study cartloads of books and he may read and study the entire multitudes of books … and keep reading endlessly …. and may read year upon years. He may continue reading for his entire life and study with every breath of his. The more one reads the more one gets entangled in his ego. The more one dwells into books of learning the more one gets confused with too much of knowledge. To know the truth one need not get immersed in books of knowledge. The real knowledge is in the Hukam of the creator of the universe. His Hukam is visible in His creation and not in some books. God is an infinite entity. He does not change with time or space. Its the Man that changes with age. Man of Gita of Koran of Guru Granth is different from one another and so is his understanding and the difference of understand is delved out of his ego. The Real Truth is the same be it in Gita or Koran or Guru Granth. The differing perception lays in who is reading what. God is not that complex a phenomenon as is His creation. To understand Him, go simple, go innocent and you’ll find Him fast.

SPIRITUALITY SCIENCE – WHAT HAVE YOU TO SAY ABOUT MAN AND WORLD?

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For meaningful conversations on any subject, people need to find correspondence between given statement and external reality. For purposes of verification, It is not easy to discover or find such correspondence in respect of statements about God and Universe.

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I would prefer to know from readers as to what Guru Granth Sahib, and the Vedas say about man and world. For example, Seasons are not the same across planet Earth. It depends upon geographical location of individual who observes changes in environment and weather related to Season. These changes are not universal experience. In fact, they may not be experienced in rest of our Solar System. These changes are related to Earth’s rotational spin and axis of rotation. For that reason, I have to ask readers to tell me as to what Guru Granth Sahib and Vedas say about Earth’s rotational spin and axis of rotation.

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We need meaningful discussion about man and world before proceeding with discussion about philosophical or religious doctrine.

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I ask you to tell me the name of your place before you tell me the name of your God.

Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4162 USA
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From: DEVINDER SINGH GULATI

SGGS Darshan says the Universe is an extension of HIMSELF. As unmanifest HE is Nirankar. You are quite right.

But when you say “destruction and creation ( thapay,uthapay) is the change in his manifested form as seasons and other things change”, you are overlooking the fact that HE is the cause of change of seasons.

I certainly have my own opinion of Gurbani, and any write up from you will help in firming it up. An opinion is after all subject to change. I consider Sikhism to be a monist religion. Most people are yet to figure it out that monism is different from monotheism.

Monotheism is dualistic. God and Nature are separate. God and Soul are separate. It is not so in Sikhism.

Gulati

From: KRISHAN BHUGTIAR


This so called visible Universe , accordingly to the Guru, is nothing but the manifestation of HIMSELF (mool Tattva). He pervades or extends HIMSELF in a puran ( complete )way. As unmanifest HE is Nirankar (without form) and as manifest HE us sakar( with form, visible). What we call destruction and creation ( thapay,uthapay) is the change in his manifested form as seasons and other things change. He is neither a creator nor a destroyer. HE cannot create Himself and neither destroy Himself. This universe is just his extended form (purusha). Please try to differentiate between manifestation , extension and creation and destruction. You can create or destroy what is not you-another particle.

Krishan Bhugtiar

From: DEVINDER SINGH GULATI

A Gurbani website has this to say on the subject:

“The Fundamental Principle of SGGS is that there is only one Supreme Being who creates and destroys the entire universe at His Will, and who also looks after His creation. He does NOT need the assistance of anybody – no god, goddess or any angel. Guru Nanak’s conviction about God (Waheguru) is unwavering and He sees Him everywhere.

“On the other hand, the Vedas discuss only deeds – good and bad – and their consequences whether a person will go to heaven or hell after death. Vedas seem to treat hell and heaven as dedicated physical structures. The objective of the Vedas is NOT to be one with GOD, but to secure a place in hell or heaven. There is a god for everything to run the business of the universe. According to Guru Granth Sahib, Vedas do not have any concept of GOD. Of the many shabads about the Vedas in SGGS the following holy Shabads certify this conclusion.

ਸਲੋਕ ਮ:1 (1243)॥ ਬੇਦ ਪੁਕਾਰੇ ਪੁੰਨ ਪਾਪੁ ਸੁਰਗ ਨਰਕ ਕਾ ਬੀਉ॥ ਜੋ ਬੀਜੈ ਸੋ ਉਗਵੈ ਖਾਂਦਾ ਜਾਣੈ ਜੀਉ॥