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Dialogues Between Man and God
The book constitutes the final part of "Tathagata - A Divine Comedy for Our Time" where Tathagata transcends the limitations of the ego-bound world and sees himself as the Christ-Man, who embodies in himself the mystery of existence of both Man and God. The dialogues between the Christ-man and God touch upon the return of God to human life and reveal the nature of the incomprehensible existence of the Divine Being through an allegorical language, which grazes between the realm of knowledge and reason and a world which lies beyond all knowing and understanding by the human mind. If one wonders about God, whose nature of existence cannot be explained in any language known to man, this book may help to gain a closer understanding of the way the Divine may appear and act in human life. In modern time science denounces the ideas of Divinity and considers the believers of God as people with brain dysfunction. This book is a product of such a "dysfunctional brain" to whom God has spoken. These dialogues between man and God will throw new lights on the existence of Christ and Buddha, who do not exist in the physical plane but manifest through human mind, and appear in the inner realm as the presence of the Divine power which animates all creations in the universe.
220 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2014
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About the author
Anup Rej
10 books3 followersAnup Rej was born in Kolkata, India in a liberal Bengali family where the spirit of the nineteenth and early twentieth century Bengali renaissance still remained alive through a passionate engagement in Eastern and Western literature, arts, philosophies and social-political ideologies. From early childhood he imbibed ideas of universal values and love for knowledge. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical Nuclear Physics from the University of Calcutta before he moved to Oslo, Norway in 1971. After working in the University of Oslo and University of Trondheim in theoretical Nuclear Physics and Elementary Particle Physics, he moved to Switzerland with his Norwegian wife – a career diplomat - whom he married in 1975. Later, while his wife was serving as a diplomat in the Norwegian Permanent Mission at the UN in New York on issues of human rights and humanitarian affairs, he developed deep interests in the situations of human rights and conflicts in the world.
While in Switzerland (Bern and Geneva) his activities in physics shifted towards cosmology, which was fashionable among the particle physicist at CERN during the early 1980s. His interests in a new theory of the universe began at that time. However, his career as a physicist came abruptly to an end with the death of their only son Ånun, who was bereaved of life only at the age of ten in a gondola accident on the Alps in 1990. He left physics and went in an inner journey in search of meaning and purpose of life. During this period he wrote an epic called “Journey of Tathagata” relating the wandering of the universal man (of whom all individuals are parts), who comes and goes life after life. In this book of poetry, music, philosophy, mythology and religion he summarized his understanding of the nature of human consciousness, and the meaning of existence.
He returned to physics once again when he moved to Seoul in 1994, where his wife served as the Ambassador of Norway to the Republic of Korea. At that time his interest switched to chaos theory and non-linear dynamics. With it he first proposed the multi-fractal nature of a designed universe in 1999. Since then he has been pursuing the ideas of the creation of a universe without beginning and end, where time exists in the background of a timeless design (Timelessness in Time).
During his stay in Seoul, he made a debut as an artist with an exhibition of oil paintings entitled, ”Art Without Beginning and End: Moving Through the Cycle of Life, Death and Resurrection” at Seoul Arts Center. Since then his activities in arts, science, literature and philosophy etc. have all converged towards exploring the cosmic nature of human existence, which is inseparably entangled with the micro and macro cosmos.
During the period 2000-2005 he had lived in Bangkok, where his wife served as an Ambassador, while developing his ideas about new cosmology and creating multimedia-presentations of his different works for the digital age. He lived in Dhaka from 2010 to 2013, where his wife served as the Ambassador of Norway to Bangladesh. Parts of the book “Vision of an Enlightened World: Cosmic Perspective in Building a New Social-Political-Order” was written in Bangladesh and Thailand.
The links to his works on cosmology, art, literature, philosophy etc. can be found in the websites: http://BooksofExistence.no and http://Anuprej.EnlightenedWorld.net
While in Switzerland (Bern and Geneva) his activities in physics shifted towards cosmology, which was fashionable among the particle physicist at CERN during the early 1980s. His interests in a new theory of the universe began at that time. However, his career as a physicist came abruptly to an end with the death of their only son Ånun, who was bereaved of life only at the age of ten in a gondola accident on the Alps in 1990. He left physics and went in an inner journey in search of meaning and purpose of life. During this period he wrote an epic called “Journey of Tathagata” relating the wandering of the universal man (of whom all individuals are parts), who comes and goes life after life. In this book of poetry, music, philosophy, mythology and religion he summarized his understanding of the nature of human consciousness, and the meaning of existence.
He returned to physics once again when he moved to Seoul in 1994, where his wife served as the Ambassador of Norway to the Republic of Korea. At that time his interest switched to chaos theory and non-linear dynamics. With it he first proposed the multi-fractal nature of a designed universe in 1999. Since then he has been pursuing the ideas of the creation of a universe without beginning and end, where time exists in the background of a timeless design (Timelessness in Time).
During his stay in Seoul, he made a debut as an artist with an exhibition of oil paintings entitled, ”Art Without Beginning and End: Moving Through the Cycle of Life, Death and Resurrection” at Seoul Arts Center. Since then his activities in arts, science, literature and philosophy etc. have all converged towards exploring the cosmic nature of human existence, which is inseparably entangled with the micro and macro cosmos.
During the period 2000-2005 he had lived in Bangkok, where his wife served as an Ambassador, while developing his ideas about new cosmology and creating multimedia-presentations of his different works for the digital age. He lived in Dhaka from 2010 to 2013, where his wife served as the Ambassador of Norway to Bangladesh. Parts of the book “Vision of an Enlightened World: Cosmic Perspective in Building a New Social-Political-Order” was written in Bangladesh and Thailand.
The links to his works on cosmology, art, literature, philosophy etc. can be found in the websites: http://BooksofExistence.no and http://Anuprej.EnlightenedWorld.net
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September 23, 2014
Can man speak to God? If God is incomprehensible, unknowable and beyond any description by language how can man, who is limited by knowledge, experience and confined in a construction of the mind called language, make dialogues with God which can carry meaning and messages from God? How such a process, which seems to defy rational comprehension and logical basis of human thinking, can occur? Dialogues between Man and God give answers to these questions while God explains in a language understandable by man how languages may form and how God using the human mind as vehicle speaks to man about something which lies beyond all knowledge of man. The dialogues are divided into two parts: First part deals with the questions regarding the nature of God and “His” appearance in the world and the way man may be able to grasp the mystery of the Divine world. Here man of flesh and blood, who is encountering God, who has no physical existence made of matter or mind (knowable by man), tries to clarify from God the meaning of human existence and the experiences of suffering which plague human life. God explains the meaning of the illusion, and the way one should walk amidst errors and accidents of life towards and enlightened path. Man wants to know what is enlightenment? Why should man seek enlightenment? And what does enlightenment may mean if God has destined all beings to follow the fate-bound course? Finally the big question is answered: What is right and wrong?
In the second part the dialogues mainly involve the way an enlightened man, who has encountered God and realized the path to God as the way to return “Home” as the end station of the journey of life, may sacrifice oneself for the benefit of mankind as a whole. In this part, called the “Right Way to Go Down and Return” the dialogues revolve around the right concepts and visions, the way to keep oneself free from delusional world, the necessity of reason and doubt, good and evil, the path of love, the way to cleanse the soul and serve the suffering women and men etc.
These dialogues are not dialogues between any individual man and God. They are dialogues between Christ-man and God. This Christ-man is a state of existence which transcends the sphere of consciousness of the human beings, who are bound to flesh and blood. It is a state between the existence of Man and the existence of God. God communicates to the world of women and men through this intermediary state of Man-God. This Christ-man resides in all similar to the way God reveals itself in all beings. Christ-consciousness is the path to transcend the physical barriers of the reality bound to matter and mind, and move towards “Home”. It is similar to Buddha-mind, which reveals itself in the world through the Buddha-body, the substrata of all- encompassing existence embodying all beings with material content.
The writing has a very esoteric character: Though it has been penned by a man of flesh and blood, the Christ-man is the true author of the book. The questions, posed by Christ-man, have definitely roots in the personal experiences of life of the man of flesh and blood through whom the words have taken shapes in the mind. The answers from God have appeared from a realm of the psyche which cannot be described by any rational way. They are often allegorical and challenging to the intellect. Using a medium made of flesh and blood they have emerged through a process of automatic writing.
In the second part the dialogues mainly involve the way an enlightened man, who has encountered God and realized the path to God as the way to return “Home” as the end station of the journey of life, may sacrifice oneself for the benefit of mankind as a whole. In this part, called the “Right Way to Go Down and Return” the dialogues revolve around the right concepts and visions, the way to keep oneself free from delusional world, the necessity of reason and doubt, good and evil, the path of love, the way to cleanse the soul and serve the suffering women and men etc.
These dialogues are not dialogues between any individual man and God. They are dialogues between Christ-man and God. This Christ-man is a state of existence which transcends the sphere of consciousness of the human beings, who are bound to flesh and blood. It is a state between the existence of Man and the existence of God. God communicates to the world of women and men through this intermediary state of Man-God. This Christ-man resides in all similar to the way God reveals itself in all beings. Christ-consciousness is the path to transcend the physical barriers of the reality bound to matter and mind, and move towards “Home”. It is similar to Buddha-mind, which reveals itself in the world through the Buddha-body, the substrata of all- encompassing existence embodying all beings with material content.
The writing has a very esoteric character: Though it has been penned by a man of flesh and blood, the Christ-man is the true author of the book. The questions, posed by Christ-man, have definitely roots in the personal experiences of life of the man of flesh and blood through whom the words have taken shapes in the mind. The answers from God have appeared from a realm of the psyche which cannot be described by any rational way. They are often allegorical and challenging to the intellect. Using a medium made of flesh and blood they have emerged through a process of automatic writing.
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