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on caste, color, creed, culture, language, national origin, etc.
in so far as the study of the Vedas is concerned. Anybody who
has the human vocal chord (that is, every human being) has
the natural right to recite the Vedas.
Philosophy of Creation:
This small booklet primarily contains
the fundamental message to help the people lost in the dark
woods to find their way to the Supreme Lord who is the father
and mother of every human being. Every child naturally yearns
to be with his mother
and
father. Otherwise, he is doomed to
be an orphaned child. But there are many people who don't
even recognize that there is a common father and mother of all
of us whom we may call by God,
Brahman,
rivara,
Allah, or
any such names. Vedas themselves include many names for Him
besides the sweetest syllable OM, and in so doing, they declare
ekam sad vipra bahudha- vadanti —
He is verily one and one
only with OM as His very own name and the noblest souls call
Him with different names derived from His attributes, activities,
functions, etc. Let us now briefly discuss the philosophy of
creation so as to clarify about the existence of God and
ourselves.
Consider a simple man-made object such as a wooden table.
We ask ourselves what are the causes responsible for bringing
it into existence. Obviously, without wood the wooden table
couldn't come into being. But we know that a log of wood
does not become a table by itself no matter how long we wait.
A carpenter must act upon it. Let us see some characteristics
of these two causes, namely wood and the carpenter. While
wood goes through a transformation, the carpenter causes the
transformation without himself going through any kind of
transformation. That is to say, while table has been made out
of wood it has been made by the carpenter. At the end of the
process the wooden log does not exist but the carpenter
continues to exist. For these reasons, the wood and the carpenter
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