Re: Question and Answer: Thoughts?
Namaste everyone,
I think that was a pretty apt answer, Kismet. An important aspect to this topic is that God must be experienced personally in order for us to know Him - experience is beyond normal empirical evidence. To think of it from a scientific point of view, by the mass-energy equivalence, we know everything around us is a manifestation of energy. Assuming that the law of conservation of energy is true, we are all part of that same infinite field of energy. Same can be said for the newly arising view that everything, even existence itself is consciousness. Putting it together, it's not much different from the Advaitic view that God is everything.
And also, we can experience this Oneness by the union of body and mind via yoga and meditation. Of course, opponents will claim that it's just an artifact of the brain, which yet remains to be proved. I am rather hesitant to use the emotional comfort argument because it would empower the classic claim that God is just a figment of imagination invented by man out of the deeply rooted psychological need of self-protection, but I agree that comparing God (in SD) to dragons and unicorns is a fallacy. We can only put to these to rest after personally experiencing God, Who is ultimately beyond material proofs.
Just my two rupees.
Fully aware of the deficiency of my intelligence, I concentrate my attention on the son of Pavana,
And humbly ask for strength, intelligence and true knowledge to relieve me of all painful blemishes.
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