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... heaven and earth but still he does not visualise the beginning , the middle or the end of the Lord.1 God is regarded as the Purusottama in the Bhagavadgītā and as Nārāyaṇa and Vasudeva by Ramanuja . He is neither personal nor impersonal ...
... heaven and earth but still he does not visualise the beginning , the middle or the end of the Lord.1 God is regarded as the Purusottama in the Bhagavadgītā and as Nārāyaṇa and Vasudeva by Ramanuja . He is neither personal nor impersonal ...
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... than this world's production . Who knows , then , whence it first came into being ? He , the first origin of this creation , whether he formed it all or did not form it . Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven , he Hinduism 17.
... than this world's production . Who knows , then , whence it first came into being ? He , the first origin of this creation , whether he formed it all or did not form it . Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven , he Hinduism 17.
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Kedar Nath Tiwari. Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven , he verily knows it , or perhaps he knows not . " There are mythical narratives regarding the creation of the world in the Viṣņu Purāṇa , the Manusmriti and such other ...
Kedar Nath Tiwari. Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven , he verily knows it , or perhaps he knows not . " There are mythical narratives regarding the creation of the world in the Viṣņu Purāṇa , the Manusmriti and such other ...
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... heaven . With three - quarters Purușa ascended , one quarter of Him came into existence again ( down ) here . Thence did he stride form on every side among all that eats and does not eat . " 1 As to the nature and status of the world ...
... heaven . With three - quarters Purușa ascended , one quarter of Him came into existence again ( down ) here . Thence did he stride form on every side among all that eats and does not eat . " 1 As to the nature and status of the world ...
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... heaven and its pleasures . The joys of heaven are conceived mostly in material terms . The soul receives there a new , more subtle body and is freed from all imperfections . There is eating and drinking of heavenly food and drink ...
... heaven and its pleasures . The joys of heaven are conceived mostly in material terms . The soul receives there a new , more subtle body and is freed from all imperfections . There is eating and drinking of heavenly food and drink ...
Contents
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Ultimate destiny | 36 |
BUDDHISM | 43 |
Life after death | 57 |
Principal sects | 67 |
Life after death | 99 |
CHRISTIANITY | 130 |
ISLAM | 153 |
SIKHISM | 173 |
COMPARISON AND APPRAISAL | 191 |
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Page 136 - So the Father is God, the Son is God : and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods : but one God.
Page 105 - I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments...
Page 17 - THEN was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it. What covered in, and where ? and what gave shelter ? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water? Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day's and night's divider. That one thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature : apart from it was nothing whatsoever.
Page 136 - So there is one Father, not three Fathers ; one Son, not three Sons ; one Holy Ghost, not three Holy Ghosts, And in this Trinity none is afore or after other, none is greater or less than another) but the whole three persons are co-eternal together, and co-equaL So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped.
Page 136 - The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible. The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Ghost eternal. And yet they are not three eternals, but one eternal.