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Who made germs ?

Nature has made numerous countless things including germs that can harm or even help. In fact you can look upon this world as a big

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I did not say that the soul has created ignorance. My submission was – The world is created only when the soul chooses to cover itself with ignorance. If she does this then can’t we assume that she wants to enjoy the world, its joy & pain, strength & weakness, evil & goodness? The soul being omnipotent, cannot be forced to cover itself with ignorance and falsehood unless it wishes to do so. Thus what should be her purpose other than this?

The ignorance is a creation of the Divine Maya, which operates in two ways, vidyamayi or a force of knowledge and oneness, and avidyamayi, a

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I have been working hard to get Kamla Harris get elected. As you know Donald Trump won and has won convincingly. I am sure Republicans think differently, but us Democrats we think that Trump is not good for US or the world. His ambitions are to become a dictator. I, we worry that if Trump, Un, Xi, Putin, Netanyahu and Mush get together it will be a disaster😱. Actually I had had a vision last year about this and that is why I got politically involved. You had given me an example of Ramayan and Mahabharat recently, on the day of elections as results started coming in I was first numb, as Americans have elected him unanimously! That night as I was meditating, I realized the example of Ramayan and Mahabharat, that it had to get so bad and ugly before the Divine intervention. But does that mean we have to wait till that times comes, or is there anything we can do so it won’t happen? I had full faith in Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, but as results started coming in I was questioning my faith.

Besides how do we know what is good and from what and whose view point? Republicans in general and President Trump in particular have been

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Most of our scriptures (except Gita & Upanishads etc) are full of different types of ritual, vrata & sadhana methods and various forms of worship. In southern parts these are more prominent. I can see most of us are following these rituals without understanding its core purpose. Please explain why so much importance is given to them in our Shastras 🤔?

As you yourself said the main shashtras do not give importance to these rituals. Besides their importance was always relative to the real elements of

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Why should we take efforts to attain the soul? When the soul itself creates the world by covering itself with ignorance, then it must want to enjoy the world. By trying to attain the soul, don’t we disturb its purpose? Instead, we should enjoy our life accepting whatever situation we are in and keep embellishing it with the aptitude and qualities we have been given by Mother Nature (Prakriti). Is it not true that if at all the search for the soul is necessary then Prakriti itself will inspire us🙄?

But who said that the soul created ignorance and wants to enjoy it? That is an erroneous conclusion and false premise. For a moment let

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Gita seems to conclude that the world is a bondage. It gives in Chapter 2, Shloka 51 जन्मबन्धविनिर्मुक्ता: (freed from the bondage of birth) as the final goal मनीषिण: (the sages). But Sri Krishna also shows Arjuna how to live like a Jivanmukta through the highest formula of surrender. I am not sure if I have understood it well but do you think the message here is ‘apparently’ contradictory – that life is ultimately a bondage and that one can also live freely😌?

That is the other side of the human evolutionary journey through the adventure of Time and Space that Sri Krishna points out when he speaks

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