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warrior4@ix.netcom.com (Chris Floyd ) wrote:
>>So we should use this human form of life to elevate our consciousness
>>so we don't have to come back to this material world again for another
>>round of birth, old age, disease and death. We should go back home,
>>back to
>>Godhead...
>that was really good up until this point. There is not going to be
>"another round". The Bible says, it is appointed a man once to die
>then the judgment. After the Judgment there is either Heaven or Hell
>for eternity, no more physical world.
It is a small difference only. The main point is the soul is eternal and
is going somewhere else after death and our destination is determined by
out actions in this life. If we are sinful we go to hell, if we become God
consciousness we go back home, back to Godhead.
The human form of life is special because we have good brains and can
engage in worshipping and serving God. That is the main thing. The animals
are also eating, sleeping, mating and having sex, and, although we are
also doing these things, that is not the main purpose of human life.
The problem with our Western civilization and "science" is it is godless.
If you analyze all the science and technology you will find practically
everything is designed to help us in satisfying our animal instincts: to
eat nicely, to sleep nicely, to have sex more comfortably, and to defend
ourselves well. This is the problem. We have become sophisticated,
technological animals! We are missing the real point of life -- to
reestablish our lost relationship with God.
God is real, and He can be experienced by any sincere soul who wants to
talk with Him, but He doesn't reveal Himself to the atheists. So the
atheists go on comfortably assuming God doesn't exist, because He doesn't
reveal Himself to them, but God appears for the atheist as cruel death.
They are making so many plans to be happy here but God in the form of
kala, or time, is frustrating all their efforts. In time everything they
do is ruined and in time they become old and invalid...
They say: "There is no God. There is no one more powerful than me." They
really want to be God, they are envious of His position. They can't stand
people serving and worshipping God and ignoring them and their "big bang"
nonsense ideas...
We only differ slightly on the details, but God is in all our hearts, He
knows what we want. If we want to reestablish our lost relationship with
Him, if we want to serve Him, He knows that. It doesn't matter if we call
ourselves Christians, or Hindus, or Muslims... God doesn't mind, He wants
to see us return to Him, but He has given us independence, so He won't
force us. Or relationship with God is a loving one so we have to
voluntarily want to serve Him. If He forced us that would not be love.
>--
>Warrior4Christ
>Gonzales, La. Jesus is LORD!
>E-Mail: Warrior4@ix.netcom.com or Doc@Rushnet.com
Thank you. Hare Krishna!
Madhudvisa dasa
(madhudvisa@krishna.org) /sudarsana
All glories to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada!
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