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Sri Bimal Mohanty
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No 4
Aug/Sep 2000
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A QUESTION OF CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT and INDIVIDUALITY OF MAN
Based on the lectures by Sri Bimal Mohanty
A QUESTION OF CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT.
This question of continuous ‘development of the soul is indeed a unique feature of our Vedantic thought process. In many other philosophies, explanations about sin, devil, judgment and punishment have been given so frightful dimensions that it has in effect destroyed the dignity and greatness of human life itself. It has gone to undermine the very confidence that is required by man to lift himself up. Fear of punishment is the last thing that can free the spirit. Watch the great lion inside a circus cage performing out of fear of the electric baton. It is the same majestic lion, the king of the forest, the dignified beast that has been reduced to a pathetic undignified creature out of sheer fear.
The spirit of the man does not have to be treated that way. The vedantic philosophy on the other hand accepts that man will make mistakes. After all, unlike other philosophies the Vedantic philosophy does not subscribe to one birth, one life and a summary judgment at the end of it. It believes in a great continuum of existence starting from the first spark of life going through a continuous developmental process spanning many lives till Satchidananda the ultimate bliss of union with the Parambrahma is achieved.
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