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Re: Any reference for creation of world?
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To: alt-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: Any reference for creation of world?
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From: tailor@crl.com (Victor Schneider)
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Date: 21 Mar 1995 21:50:53 GMT
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Distribution: world
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From news@crl.com Tue Mar 21 16: 41:48 1995
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: crl.com
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References: <3kde1n$n3f@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
In article <3kde1n$n3f@ucunix.san.uc.edu>, M1N@ECL.PSU.EDU says...
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>hi there,
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>Bertrand russell in one of his essays consistently questions the reason for
>God to create the world? Further he suggests that even if God did create
the
>world and everything in the world is according to the Divine Plan, how can
one
>justify a five year old child dying of meningitis? Is there any argument
for
>this available in Gita or upanishads?
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>Radhakrishnan in his "Introductory Essay" of the Bhagavadgita does give an
>explanation for the "presence of pain and imperfection".
>to quote his exact words " The presence of pain and imperfections is traced
not
>to man's rebellious will but to a disharmony between the creative purpose
of
>God and the actual world. If suffering is traced to the "fall" of man, we
>cannot account for the imperfections of innocent nature, for the corruption
I can speak as someone who has done past-life regressions using hypnosis
with Mensa Society members and others in the U. S. You can follow people
into the afterlife during such regressions. That doesn't yield answers
to all questions, and some areas of the afterlife are simply not accessible,
but it is very clear that a single incarnation is not the focus of all one's
existences, though it contains echos of other incarnations. It is also
clear that Hindu and Western ideas of what God (Brahman) is and how God
thinks are not an accurate reflection. God _is_ `cruel' by our standards,
and that is just a given fact. God does compensate for this `cruelty', but
we may not agree that the compensation is just. Unfortunately, God has yet
to answer a summons to a human court of law, and it is unclear just what
laws would be best used to sue God.
Nevertheless, because God doesn't measure up to our standards and pre-
conceptions of what God ought to be doesn't negate the fact that God does
indeed exist. And, whether it is the Muslim delusion about what God is or
the Judeo/Christian delusion doesn't matter to that existence.
