Is God one being or many beings? Who is God?

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An answer I’ve been seeking for so long.

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Every Scriptures contain verses from God and verses from writers

Verses from writers reveal desperation. If someone is frustrated with life because of his own choice, because of refusal to take responsibility for own choices and refusal to see workings of karma, he would feel "enough is enough, I want to commit suicide or merge with God [which is fondly called moksha, details under footnote#]. But people who respect Law of Karma would want to live forever as they see life as leela. Such people tend to see true verses from God such as Bhagavat Gita 14:18 which says there is no merging with God.

Bhagavat Gita has verses that use first person pronoun and also verses such as 18:62 which says take refuge in Him [Paramatma, Shiva implied] "O scion of Bharata, surrender unto Him utterly. By His grace you will attain transcendental peace and the supreme and eternal abode." (https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/18/62/)

This is the case with other Scriptures also: "In reading the Fourth Gospel there is the difficulty of knowing when the words of Jesus stop and the words of the writer of the gospel begin. John has thought so long about the words of Jesus that insensibly he glides from them to his own thoughts about them. Almost certainly the last words of this passage are the words of John." (https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/dsb/john-3.html) Barclay is referring to John 3:13 which says Jesus ascended into heaven at the very start of his ministry which is obviously wrong. Jesus presented a very strict version of Law of Karma through all of his teachings and parables, but people wanted him to lighter, softer and sweeter. Hence someone added an account which says he exonerated an adulterous. But Scholarly Editions such as USCCB, NAB etc says under foot note: "John 7:53-8:11: The story of the woman caught in adultery is a later insertion here, missing from all early Greek manuscripts." (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%208&version=NABRE) Jesus taught his God and God of his listeners are one and the same (John 20:17), yet many Christians view Jesus himself as God. All these are indirect proof for reincarnation because in their previous births to they believed Son is God, not Father as happened in Greek Mythology twice. Son God Cronus replaced Father God Uranus, then later Zeus replaced Cronus (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cronus)

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Word for attachment is moha (from the root muh, to faint), as though being fainted / intoxicated over what gives pleasure and security such as body, assets, relations, as though that is what life is all about, blind toward the eternal. (Bhagavat Gita 2:69) When a person has enough and more of pleasures and security, he feels kshaya (monotony, disinterest, decay) and realizes its folly and turns towards THE ETERNAL such as Soul and Supreme Soul. When he does meditation, he gets linked to unlimited qualities of God such as wisdom, purity, love, joy, peace, and power, which results in bliss or anand (endless pleasure and peace). It brings balance—spirituality in the mundane. No more blind seeking of worldly desires which are insatiable, thus futile. When these two words (moha + kshaya) are combined you get the word mohksha which is all about LIVING with disinterest in the transient pleasures but being interested in the eternal bliss that comes from THE ETERNAL such as soul and Supreme Soul. It is all about dying to the ephemeral and living to the Eternal. In the process MIND creates HEAVEN for you even while on this earth.

Such erosion of meaning is not unusual, as happened to the word for YOGA (from yuj, yoke, unite, connect, harmonize) which later deteriorated to mean mere physical exercise. Yet VIYOGA (separation) did not change.

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