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It is often advised that one should practice seeing the Divine in others as a part of yogic growth. While seeing the Divine in gentle and beautiful people is easy, how does one see the Divine in those who are brutish, nasty and mean😨? This stand feels a little difficult (and confusing) because the dynamic side of manifestation is not quite an exact representation of Divine Will and ignorance and evil still are at play.

It is true that it is difficult to see the Divine in everyone but that is mainly because we associate the Divine with goodness, especially

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What is God😇?

To the yogis and mystics – God is to be known by experience. Several yogis have experienced God through the Ages and have invariably described

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Its a philosophical question but I often why did the creator create this world? Why did the creator become inconscient, became nature and now following the path of evolving towards itself? Is it for release of Ananda? As a life experience, we feel joyous when we progress. Similarly when the inconscient is growing towards becoming fully conscious, Ananda is released. Is that so?

These are different ways of saying the same thing. By entering a state of complete oblivion and then releasing it gradually through a complex evolutionary

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I have never really had any doubts earlier, so I am very shocked at myself. I grew up with a very strong christian education at school and all that was fed into me was christian ideology of God and heaven and hell from early teenage years. This never really hindered my journey with Mother and Sri aurobindo and I found christian ideas quite a crude way of seeing God. But now suddenly I am having doubts about them which a part of me knows is stupid but another part of me clings onto this doubt and fear. Its like a constant voice in the background saying the real God is the christian God and is bringing fear of hell. I feel really guilty because its come to the point of doubting them whom I love the most. When I try to get rid of the doubt by reasoning or surrender with it it just goes back to the christian idea that God is the only real God and anything else that says its God is false and is trying to take you away from the truth and you will be sent to hell if you don’t follow the correct God. No sort of reasoning can make it go away and surrender of it is difficult because its affecting my faith. What should I do😪?

Regarding your question about which is the better path between Christianity and Hinduism. The question arises because of the strong formation that emanates from the

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