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then the particular soul may be linked to God. This and this
alone is the method to worship God, and to Him alone is
worship due and to nobody else. This requires purity of mind
through an upright moral code of conduct and continuous
practice to control the functions of the mind.
Definitely, the union of soul and God can take place within us
where the soul resides and where He too exists by virtue of
His being omnipresent and all-pervading. According to the
Vedas, there is no sense in worshipping God in a temple,
mosque, church, or any other man-made structure. If man must
look for a conducive location then it can be such locations
where the mother nature showers Her pristine beauty in an
unpolluted form. Yajurveda says,
Upahvare girenroil sari game ca nadinam. Dhiyi vipro ajayata.
i.e., In the valleys of the mountains and near the confluence of
the rivers, our intellect gets purified (for realization of self
and God).
A soul with the ability to experience self-realization and God-
realization, by virtue of higher order karma may be granted
mukti
upon its death, i.e. the soul may come out of the cycle of
birth and death.
God is Kind and Just: God is infinitely kind, benevolent and
merciful that He has given us everything that we could ask for
our progress in the human life. There is absolute perfection in
His creation. He is perfectly just as well, as is reflected in
diversity seen among the human beings. For example, one baby
child is born to poor parents where even mother's milk may
not be sufficient and another child is born to rich parents. One
child is born with normal physique while another child is born
with body defects. The diversity among newly born children
demonstrates His justice mechanism applied to different souls
depending on their
karma
in the previous lives. To the layman,
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