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If God knows the future, doesn’t that make our destiny fixed?
From: Premanjana Das If God knows future, isnt our destiny fixed? Or atleast from absolute level arent things happening in a fixed manner? Where does the role of soul’s independence fits in? I encounter this question many times but dont have any stisfactory explaination. To hear the answer, please click here
Happy New Year
This new year greeting mostly remains a wish. Can this sincere wish be transformed into a reality? As we live in the age of science, let us first analyze this greeting from the perspective of science. What’s A Year? Let’s begin with the word ‘year’. A year is a unit for measuring time. And what [...]
Karma’s Flawless Justice
“Why me! What did I do to deserve this?” cries the outraged person who feels unfairly singled out by cruel providence. Why bad things happen to good people is a question that may haunt us when we see virtuous people victimized by painful reverses in life. The “problem of evil” has been the bane of [...]
Why use material analogies to illustrate spiritual truths?
Question: When God is spiritual, how can we use material analogies to explain his nature and related spiritual truths? Answer: Material analogies serve an important but intermediate step in assimilating spiritual truths. The process of assimilating spiritual truths involves the following broad stages: Know about them through scriptural revelation Understand them through reasoning that uses [...]
The Gita’s Message of Love
Love is one of the most spoken and least understood words. Love is commonly equated with sensual enjoyment, but does such superficial titillation offer substantial satisfaction to the heart? The suffering of the stomach hungry for food is well-recognized, but the agony of the heart hungry for love is often overlooked. In our love-starved society, [...]
Atheism Refuted
Atheistic scientists like Richard Dawkins in his book The God Delusion present specious arguments to disprove the existence of God. Let’s see how those arguments fall apart on proper scrutiny. I. The designer hypothesis immediately raises the larger problem of who designed the designer. If the object in nature is complex and so improbable, the [...]
The Respiritualization Of Science
“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story [of the big bang] ends like a bad dream. For the past three hundred years, scientists have scaled the mountain of ignorance and as they pull themselves over the final rock, they are greeted by a band of theologians [...]
Why is it so difficult to know God?
Question: Why do many intellectuals inquiring about God – be they scientists investigating his existence or historians of religion researching his ancient appearances – often fail to understand God properly? Answer: Their failure results from adopting an inappropriate method that neglects the vital difference between knowing about God and knowing God. The Bhagavad-gita (7.7) reveals [...]
Why does God demand faith?
Question: If God exists, why does he not reveal himself to us? Why does he first demand faith before we can know and see him? Answer: When we ask a question like this, we often forget that acquiring even worldly knowledge requires faith and training. Let’s consider a few examples: 1. If we were to [...]
Why discuss unscientific things like God, soul and rebirth in this scientific age?
Question: When I talk about God, soul, rebirth, people often question: why discuss such unscientific things in this modern age of science? Answer: Their question originates not from their scientific thinking, but from their belief in scientism, the peculiar school of thought that places around science a halo of “omniscience.” The reputed physicist Fritjof Capra in [...]
Can God make a square circle?
Question: If God can do anything, can he make a square circle? Answer: Questions like these arise from not understanding the definition of God as the Supreme Being. Let’s consider the two kinds of impossibilities: practical and logical. Practical impossibility: When the sacred scriptures describe that, say, Lord Krishna lifted the huge Govardhana hill in Vrindavana [...]
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