Re: Alien (extra terrestrial) Religions
Namaste, Eastern Mind
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Eastern Mind
Vannakkam Eric and Saidevo:
Here's my 'scientific take'. God is endless, the universe expands and contracts. Our souls exist on a planet, but that planet is finite. So if we are to continue evolving, or new souls are created in endless cycles, obviously once this planet dies, and before it got going, we souls had to and will have to live somewhere. The most obvious choice is another planet suitable for the evolution of the soul.
Aum Namasivaya
It is noteworthy that you say that "new souls" are created in endless cycles. If I am not mistaken the traditional view (per Dharma) is that there are no new souls: the soul is eternal, as it were.
But I am actually in agreement with you. Nor are we the only ones to think this way. If I'm not mistaken Sri Aurobindo believed new ego-consciousnesses arose from the "Inconscience" - that mass or void depicted somewhere in the Rg-Veda from which all the potentialities of this world come to be.
In the Mundaka Upanishad we have that well-worn story of two birds in one tree: the individual I or jiva consciousness, and the Witness-consciousness who is supposed to be Ishvara or Brahman or Paramatman (I am not sure which).
Is it perhaps that it is the witness consciousness which is really eternal, and it is the first bird, always desiring and grasping, which is the outcome of fluctuating potentiality?
How can I put this in a sentence? Try next time.
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