Anyone who is seriously seeking God, longing to understand their relationship with him. I assure you, the Hindu tradition is by far the superb means by which anyone can receive the Grace of God and His ultimate Vision.
The Hindu tradition was not founded like other Religious organizations. There are no needless rituals or confusing-contradicting quotes. Of couse if you read various "western" interpretations of the Vedic Scriptures you are bound to get a false and even posioned version of it. That is why it is only the teachings of a Saint that are worth reading. Only a Saint can interpret the Divine knowledge of God and present it to the souls of the world.
So in the beginning of this particular Time period known as one Brahmand. God (Brahma) created the entire Cosmic Universe, which contains all the planets, stars and galatic clusters as well as all the Celestrial Abodes and the Lower Abodes or Hells. He created the manifestation of Time and motion, as well as Celestrial God's, and Demons to rule the Lower Abodes. So we see that God Himself is the creator of all that exhists weather it is on a Material Cosmic Level or a Spiritual Level. Now to understand the omnipresence of all creation we come to a deep cosmic understanding of our placement in the Universe. This is not the only Earth Planet in our Universe. There are many numerous Earth planets in the infinate number of Galaxies. Where each soul has a chance of being born, this is another perfect description of the various personalities we see here in the world.
To our feeble minds we assume that the earth is only 50 billion years old, as the Big Bang Theory, has tried to convince us of some scientific evolution of the Universe. However, our Eternal Scriptures, that are revealed by God has shown us is that our Universe is much older than we think and that our Material Earth as we think of it, is actually an Eternal creation.
Our scriptures teach that eveything within the Universe is working in a systematic and Perfect order. When the cosmos is created, souls are produced which are also eternal and unlimited in number. God creates (expands himself) an unlimited ammount of Chief Celestrial Gods called Brahma's. Unlimited 'spacial pockets' are created in the universe which are each occupied by one Brahma (expansion of Godhead) who then creates an earth planet and the celestrial world of God's and Goddesses to watch over and control the forces of creation such as Prosperity, Wisdom, Water, Air etc. Before the creation of the earth planet, the cycles of time are also formed to induce the progression of events and to maintain the total history of the earth planet for trillions of years. Brahma lives for 100 years x 360 days and nights and each day is 4,320 million earth years. His present age is 155.521972 trillion years and He lives 311.04 trillion years. His present age is the 1st day of the 51st year. At the end of Brahma's life the Universe and all within it are destroyed and re-created all over again. So you can see that the existance of Universe, God and Souls are eternal and never-ending.
Surrendering to God doesn't mean "Take up the Cross." It means surrender. In war when you cannot fight any longer because the enemy is too strong and has you out numbered, you surrender. On the spiritual sence it means not to give up, but to admit "Lord I'm ignorant of your ways and cannot understand the glories of your past-times and workings, all I desire is your Divine Love and Bliss. To have a glimpse of you and admire your perfection, to dwell with you for eternity, and renounce all my evil and selfish material attachments because nothing is as pleasing as you and nothing is as attractive as you."
This is the foundation of Hinduism, to worship the Supreme Lord and to understand His infinite forms, personalities, powers, and decensions. To realize His Divinity as being beyond the human mind. For a devotee wishing to receive the ultimate vision and God-realization, surrending to a God-Realized Saint and learning from the Vedic masters and others who have spent their entire lives devoted to God is their Spiritual calling. In our Western Society anyone can go out and get a license to preach, one only has to study for a short time. However, the Vedic system is strick when it comes to Masters and we can only trust those who are filled with such a Divine Personality that they cannot be mistaken for anything less than a Divine Master.
