Posted on: 15 Dec 2019
Smt. Priyanka Seethepalli asked: Nowadays, we are hearing so much about scientists trying to study the planet Mars, as a possible planet to host human life and other life forms. There are many theories where they are predicting that humans will, one day, live on Mars. There is a saying I have heard since childhood, “Without Lord Śiva’s order, even an ant will not move a step”. So, is this human colonization of Mars, God’s plan? Or is this just human ambition, which could possibly lead to their own destruction? There are conflicting opinions regarding this.
Swami replied: There are living beings on the planets already, but the living beings are energetic beings. They are souls living in energetic bodies, which are not seen by us with our eyes, due to the will of God (māyā). Even if we go to Mars and live there, there will be no interference of the energetic beings with us. Even on earth, when we go near burial grounds, ghosts, which are also energetic beings, pass through us without any interference. Sometimes, ghosts even live in our houses without any interaction. Ghosts appear and interact with us only by the will of God.
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