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Karma as the Source of Diversity

The vedas acknowledge divine karma as the origin of all creation, preservation, and destruction. However, since God does not have desires, unlike humans, he is not constrained by them. In the first chapter of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (1.6.1), we discover that karma is one of the three main causes of diversity, alongside name and form. The variety in names is a result of speech, and the variety in forms is a result of the eye, while the mind and body are the sources for the variety in actions. For every action, the body serves as the source, the controller, or the lord.  Within the body, the mind, speech, breath, organs of action, and organs of perception are regarded as the primary deities who receive sustenance from the body and carry out their respective functions. Nevertheless, we cannot solely depend on them to combat the impurities and the malevolent forces that can infiltrate our body, as they are susceptible to evil and demonic influences, thoughts, desires, temptations,...
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Three days at Ramakrishna Mission, Belur Math-Calcutta 

Religions pass through 3 stages (1)Ritual mode (2)Recital Mode (3)Realization Mode.

Mode (1) and (2) are done in anticipation to achieve something. We develop a feeling that if we don't pray to god or if we don't make offerings, things will go wrong with us. We develop a feeling that if we do something we get something in its return but no religion says this except Judaism but still we all persist this psychology.

Every religion has 4 aspects:
  1. Spiritual Core: Hindu psychology comes from Vedas, Upanishads, and Bhagavad Gita. 
  2. Mythological Body: Origination of mythology is from Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Purana.
  3. Rituals: Origination of rituals is from Purana and Tantra
  4. Social Conducts: Law books like Manusmriti.
The last three aspects change as time moves on as guru to teach us all this also change. Hinduism is not only a religion but a way of life. 

Hinduism also gives an immense freedom to choose What to believe in? Whom to pray? What to pray? And many such other freedoms but this has its respective place until someone realizes that universe is within me. The Vedanta strictly says that the desire or to set a goal to achieve Brahman is itself a bad deed. Because there is no getting of such things as a material, you are that itself.

In the earlier time the responsibility of learning was with Brahmans and they did not share the raw knowledge to the lower caste. Also with the time passed Indian masses were moreover charmed by words not ideas.

This loss of filtration of the knowledge from the upper caste to the lower caste made us to develop less than the others. The core problem of knowledge distribution in India is to adopt more words and less ideas where as mind needs more ideas compared to words.

Hinduism has survived even after so many questions on it which led a mass change, by just keeping faith in two things scientifically the "Theory of Atoms" and spiritually by giving up every thing for god and if can't then get detached. 
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