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    Because we probably don’t have free will and everything is God, prasadam and prayer are part of the consciously perceived manifestation of God or the autonomous underlying order of the universe. Prasadam and prayer are then not different from your heart beating or a tree growing.

     

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    I am refereeing to the message No.170 of Justin and I agree with his views.

    In the physical realm of the World, it may sometimes appear that we are following the correct path but inherently we may be wrong. The word ‘infinite’ is not the correct for the word ‘purna’ or ‘entire’. Infinite word is used for counting purposes to understand the number. It can be used to give imaginary picture but it is confusion in itself since it is a countless number with limited calculating mind.

    Secondly, what is infinite for an ant may not be infinite for an advanced man. You need not count to know/compare the complete greatness. An ant can not count the number of stones of difference sizes and shapes in a building but a man can if he wishes but it is a waste of time, rather he will refer it as a complete building which he created. Similarly, what is infinite for a man may not be infinite for superior divine entities in entire universe. Universal consciousness cannot be imagined/measured but it has to be experienced.

    Can’t find the message you are referring to. Talking about infinity, I can assure you that the only difference between an ant and a human is that an ant cannot understand the concept whereas a human can.

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    Seems the rate is still lower than than that of the Swiss or the French so I guess they are more scared of Karma in those countries.

     

    People who choose to wear the uniform even in a time of peace have to work under greater pressure than people like you can ever imagine. At 18 when most people are at school, going to ball games and parties, these fine men and women are doing jobs where one slip could kill their friends. Of course more of these brave souls will be unable to deal with the pressure compaired to their counterparts at school or working fast food.

    Sometimes in your glee about American misery your lack of life experience shines through.

    A good soldier is a well trained soldier. As such he is able to automatically perform complex actions in combat situations without much thinking. A good soldier deals with his friends being killed by simply blocking out any thoughts of responsibility for the death of his friends. This is easier when he knows that he just did what he was trained to do. This mode of functioning doesn’t necessarily need to be more stressful than working fast food, although it may take a special kind of individual to begin with.

     

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    "... The last will be first, and the first will be last. ..."

     

     

    Matthew 19:30-20:19

     

    30But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.

     

    1“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. 2He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

     

    3“About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5So they went.

     

    “He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. 6About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’

     

    7“‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.

     

    “He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’

     

    8“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’

     

    9“The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius. 10So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’

     

    13“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

     

    16“So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

     

    17Now as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside and said to them, 18“We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn Him to death 19and will turn Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day He will be raised to life!”

     

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    The Buddhist concept of 'bardo' referres to the period between one life and the next, this is its normal meaning when it is mentioned without any qualification. There has been considerable dispute over this theory during the early centuries of Buddhism, with one side arguing that rebirth (or conception) follows immediately after death, and the other saying that there must be an interval between the two. With the rise of mahayana, belief in a transitional period prevailed. Later Buddhism expanded the whole concept to distinguish six or more similar states, covering the whole cycle of life, death, and rebirth. But it can also be interpreted as any transitional experience, any state that lies between two other states. Its original meaning, the experience of being between death and rebirth, is the prototype of the bardo experience, while the six traditional bardos show how the essential qualities of that experience are also present in other transitional periods. By refining even further the understanding of the essence of bardo, it can then be applied to every moment of existence. The present moment, the now, is a continual bardo, always suspended between the past and the future. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo)

     

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    The definition of God is Supreme Controller, how the Supreme Controller can ever become controlled by the laws of material nature, like old age and death?

    The Complete Whole is not formless. If He were formless, or if He were less than His creation in any other way, He could not be complete. The Complete Whole must contain everything both within and beyond our experience; otherwise He cannot be complete. You don't need a scripture but two eyes to see all the variety in nature, all this variety must be within The Complete Whole, otherwise He cannot be fully complete.

    Buddhism holds: emptiness is form and form is emptiness. And Krishna called himself: smaller than the smallest. So what do we talk about here?

     

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    So if I am nothing and god is everything why should it worry me? It worries me because whome I call 'I' is a separate ego and the ego fears its death. Hense it struggles against the the merging with god and becaome one with god. But the spiritual ideal is with out ego. What is the problem if I as a separate entity does not exist? It is all the more better if I am one with god or one with everything isint it?

     

    K.Ravindran

     

    There is, indeed, a second solution. If god is the origin of everything and everything is one, then everything is god. I think, therefore I am, thus I am god.

     

    The Buddhist idea of essential nothingness, may even suggest that I can be both nothing and god, because god is nothing. Maybe here’s some common ground with religious monism.

     

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