Posted on: 11 Oct 2020
[An online spiritual discussion was conducted on October 5, 2020, in which several devotees participated. Some of the questions of devotees answered by Swāmi are given below.]
[Samādhi Gītā says that the existence of God is doubtful. It gives importance to the analysis of the self, step by step, by giving a good example of various layers of an onion.]
Swāmi replied: Giving a good example does not make the concept good. A demon swallowed a human being. To explain this, an example is given saying that the demon swallowed the human being just as a human being swallows a tablet. Just because the example given is so good, does it make the swallowing of the human being by the demon good? The correctness of a concept is always decided on its own merit and not by the strength of a good example used to explain it. The visible proof for the existence of the unimaginable God is the demonstration of unimaginable events called miracles. There are genuine miracles in this world and they are the basic proof for the existence of the unimaginable God. Spiritual knowledge is built upon the basis of the perception of unimaginable events called miracles. Due to these perceivable miracles, the established spiritual knowledge is spiritual science because science is basically built upon proof in the form of practical experiments. Hence, such books should be neglected and we should not be attracted by their names.
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