sridatta1
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| Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:09 pm Post subject: Except God, nothing is absolutely eternal |
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Except God, nothing is absolutely eternal
Saapekshakanitya aatmaa mukhyanityaabhaavaat.
(The soul is eternal with respect to the body which is destroyed. This is only relative eternality with reference to the body. Except God, nothing is absolutely eternal and hence there is no exact simile to God in the world).
The eternality of the soul is only relative with respective to the body that is destroyed after some time (Hanyamaane…Gita). This relative eternality of soul is taken as a simile to absolute eternality of God, because there is no absolutely eternal item in the world that can be compared to God. Only the available best among the relatively eternal items can be selected for comparison. In the beginning of Gita this subject of eternality of the soul with respect to the body is clearly explained, which gives the reason for selection of the soul as simile to God. |
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