<Krislantijn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Just as an embryo, coverded by the womb, cannot perceive what is going
> on outside the womb and cannot even perceive or know its own mother,
> the conditioned beings cannot perceive its own source which lies
> beyond their limited sense perception, nor can they see that which
> lays beyond the wall of death.
>
> Just as the embryo cannot realize whether it will run around freely or
> will be bound up, whether it will be rich or poor, weak or powerful
> or whatever, in the same way an ignorant living being does not know
> whether after death he will be eternally liberated or take rebirth as
> a human or an animal, whether he will go to heaven or hell or whatever
> his destination will be.
>
> We want to see God but what credit do we have? How can an
> insignificant germ who resides in our body see or realize our human
> form? How can we, insignificant, conditioned, ignorant human beings,
> with our limited sense perception, perceive the unlimited, all-
> pervading form of the Lord who cannot even be captured by the greatest
> mystics?
Then, it makes sense NOT to assume that, without evidence, such a "being"
does exist.
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