Krislantijn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> 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?
===>Since all gods are created and located inside the minds of
believers, they can never be observed by others. The best other
belivers can do is to imagine that their deity is somewhere in
that invisibe realm and that his/her god is the same as the one
others believe in. -- L.
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