Why Did God Not Create The Feeling That There Is Only One God Among Humans?

[Shri Surendra asked (through Shri Balaji): The following question is there in my mind for a long time. I tried searching for an answer on my own, but I could not get a satisfactory answer. Religions have been the biggest reason of genocide, and killing, for thousands of years (even more, for sure). As we know, God alone created the whole world. He also created human beings having all the sūkṣma bhāvas or feelings like mercy, love, hate, anger, greed, jealousy etc. Please clarify why God did not add an additional bhāva or feeling in the human being that there is only one God? Why was this ‘one God-feeling’ not inbuilt in humans? It would have solved the biggest problem facing mankind today!]

Swami replied: You have agreed that God created feelings like mercy and love in human beings. Then why are so many people not following mercy and love? Why can those feelings in them not prevent them from killing other living beings or at least soft-natured and good living beings? People kill innumerable soft-natured animals and birds for food, even though God has created plenty of vegetarian food. Those animals and birds do not try to harm the killer in any way and yet they are killed. Similarly, God created the oneness of God as the first good quality. It is called yoga (Samatvam yoga ucyate—Gita). Śaṅkara propagated the oneness of God in Hinduism. Swami Vivekananda propagated the oneness of God in all world religions. Hence, this concept was not only created by God, but it was also well-propagated by God in the world.

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