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Ok, to summarize, you believe god exists, but you believe it is delusion for you to believe god exists. I will grant you one thing, you are certainly demonstrating to me that you are deluded. I am sorry, but really, what else can I say?
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Absolutely. Ishvara comes from Brahman through vidya-maya, the creative principle of the kosmos. Ishvara is the prime actor. Everything else is formed and set in motion, "within his own body". In other words, Ishvara is ever-present throughout all of creation creation. Ishvara is the creation God of all other monotheistic traditions.
Our conception of Brahman and Ishvara is a delusion. We try to conceptualize infinities with finite perceptions as well as deluding ourselves that Ishvara is separate from us.
The context in which you are saying this is where the Buddhist writer is stating that your perception that your prayer was answered by god is a delusion. Further, that your focus on it is blocking your ability to shift your focus to "awareness", and that if you cling to it, awareness will elude you. You admit this, but the only side of this discussion you have come out on is to justify theist dualists in their belief in god. Their clinging to their beliefs and the delusions upon delusions that led them there are just as much a block to their own enlightenment as a scientist's embrace of empiricism would be, but you seem to fail to see that, and give them encouragement and justification toward sinking deeper into that delusion.
I am not sure if your understanding or grasp of eastern philosophy is simplistic or if your application of it is capricious.
"Deeper" into that delusion of separateness brings one closer to nondual awareness. I, my belief in God, the experience of my prayer being answered are all delusions. My ideation of the kosmos leads me toward nondual awareness, however long that might take. Dualists have no model of nondual reality. But I do encourage them in their beliefs.