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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,...

DIFFERENT PARADIGMS




This blog is inspired by Dr Veerle Van Tricht who was impressed by my blogs and told me to write a blog on her book. Such things really motivate me to write such more blogs.

Recently, I read the book "My Surgeon Talks To Angels-A Journey From Science To Faith" by Dr Veerle Van Tricht. I was a bit amazed after reading this book. This book has some mentions of the events happening with the writer which were Angelic. She has mentioned all the angelic activities happening with her since she was six years old. She shares her experiences when she was six years old, that how she left her body every night when she went to sleep and travelled with an angel through space. She was an unusual child. The most interesting thing is, she is still alive and confidentially claims that she is more engaged with angles than all of us. Although, listening to angelic experience from a science student was a bit awkward for me, but as I kept reading her book, I realized how she was into angelic experiences. She has somewhat created a bridge between science and faith, as she claims in her book that angels also help her while she is operating the patient. She also has a vast knowledge in Angel and Archangel, Spirits and Residue which she has mentioned in her book.

To believe in all these angelic activities is not easy for all of us. We haven't ever experienced any such activity and on the other hand, science is also out of this faith realizing experience. But still, there are many things in this world which science cannot define & we still believe or have faith in them.

The Jagannath Temple in Puri, Odisha, India, has 11 facts that blow the mind of a science believer. Apart from all these well-known facts, there is one other fact which is not in the texts. Only local Pujaris and their forefathers know about this. The believed fact is, when Lord Krishna died, in his funeral, his heart was still unburnt, his heart was pumping. And the three sculptures at the temple resembling Lord Jagannath, his sister Subhadra and brother Balram are made up of wood. In every 12 years, the sculptures are changed to a new one. On the day of changing this sculpture, there is a strict blackout and the temple is covered by CRPF officers. The reason behind this is that Lord Krishna's heart is transferred to the new sculpture and also the Pujari who does this is blindfolded and has gloves in his hand to hold that heart. It is said that if someone spots that heart then he will die. The Pujaris share their feelings of holding that heart as something jumping in their hand as if it was a rabbit.

The founder of Indian Paranormal Society, Gaurav Tiwari who wanted to become a pilot but turned up to choose paranormal steam. He was found dead in the bathroom of his home. According to Delhi police, his death was because of asphyxiation. But there were several arguments raised on this theory. His family members are also not accepting this theory. His family members found him lying unresponsive in his bathroom with the thin black line across his neck. His family members gave this statement that before some days of Gaurav Tiwari's death he already told his family members that some bad paranormal activities are happening with him and he won't live long. He was taken to the hospital by his family members but could not be resuscitated. This is also an unsolved case between science and para-normality.

Being a Vedantic student, all this seems very new and interesting. At present, my statement as a Vedantic student for such a paradigm would be, that those things which we cannot see, feel or experience can be called an illusion. I will work more on this paradigm and bring more such blogs in the future.

Please let me know whether this will be of interest to my readers.

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  1. Yes, it was really very interesting. You should post more blogs on this topic....I liked that it was detailed . I will share it to all my friends.

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