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Re: prakriti and karma
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Subject: Re: prakriti and karma
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From: Srinivas Sista <sista@ecn.purdue.edu>
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Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
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Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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References: <ghenDsIoB5.2nw@netcom.com>
In article <ghenDsIoB5.2nw@netcom.com> Pradip Gangopadhyay <pradip@lism.usc.edu> writes:
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> Let me try to explain by an analogy. The jiva is like a machine while
>God is like the electric current that drives the machine. Without God it is
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>not possible for jiva to do anything just as a machine can not operate without
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>the electric current. The ego bound jiva does not realize that. As long as the
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>jiva does not identify with the electric current but instead identifies with
>the machine (his ego) he is responsible for his good and bad deeds. When the
>jiva identifies with the current i.e with God he will be incapable of doing
>anything bad as his will merges with the Divine will. Only then the jiva will
>acquire free will. That is why only realized souls like Sri Chaitanya or Sri
>Ramakrishna are truly free. This is because their wills have become the same
>as the one and only one truly free will, the Divine will.
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Question: Is not the `identifying' driven by the current, since it is something
the machine does?
regards
Sista.
