The Vedas recognize divine karma (the action of God) as the source of all creation, preservation and destruction. However, since God performs them without desires, unlike human beings he is not bound by them. From the first chapter of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (1.6.1) we learn that karma is one of the triple causes of diversity, the other two being name and form. The diversity in names arises from speech, and the diversity in forms comes from the eye, whereas the (mind and) body is the sources for the diversity in actions. For all actions, the body is the source, the controller, or the lord. Within the body, the mind, the speech, breath, the organs of action, and the organs of perception are considered the main deities who receive their share of food from the body and perform their actions. However, we cannot fully rely upon them to fight the impurities and the evil that can infest our body, since they are all vulnerable to evil and demonic actions, thoughts, desires, temptations, a
My name is Merrill Bhowmick and am a 18 year old boy studying in Nutan College of Engineering and Research for B.Tech in Artificial Intelligence. My passion is to write blogs and I am interested in learning the knowledge of Upanishads. Basically my family is a Ramakrishna Mission devotee. Since class 7th I had been reading many books of Ramakrishna Mission, and I am inspired by the speech which Swami Vivekananda gave at Chicago. My motive to write this blogs is to make a bridge between the thought process of the Vedantic era and current era which would ease down the unwanted gathered stress with some rich knowledge of Sanatan Dharma. For me, the most interesting thing to get knowledge of is Mandukya Upanishad and Advaita Vedanta.
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