On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 01:21:55 -0800 (PST), Krislantijn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>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.
The embryo does not have the written word of God, or the life of
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, either.
>
>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?
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