Essays

I believe, far from being a flaw, our inherent by-design tendency to accept maya’s illusions as reality serves positive divine-worthy purpose. I propose it enables areas of experiential expression and exploration of divinity (i.e. God, God’s energies, and ourselves included) otherwise out of reach to an all-cognisant being. Thus making an important contribution to to […]

I propose that as a divine being your goal of life is to explore and express divinity in whatever way you choose. In so doing you automatically, by dint of your simultaneous oneness and difference with/from God, perfectly serve both the reason for your very existence and the greater purpose of God. The question for […]

The popular understanding of karma, especially if one wants to think in terms of good karma and bad karma outcome absolutes, to me requires an established/predefined something to measure action and thought against … for example pre-determined moral codes, laws of acceptable behaviour, and logically therefore also ultimately a prescription of the goal of life […]

The word sin normally refers to transgression of absolute (non-contextual) laws of acceptable behaviour decreed by God. A sinner is defined as one to transgresses such laws in much the same way that a criminal is one who transgresses the law of the land. But in my opinion sin is not an actual thing … […]

A confession … or at least an explanation for my Hare Krishna friends who wonder why that previously humble/submissive Divyasimha das now sometimes refuses to bow to authority of guru, sadhu and sastra. Well, it all comes down to first principles. According to Wikipedia … In philosophy and science, a first principle is a basic […]

In the dharmic tradition there is no such thing as sin*. Or at least no such thing as non-contextual sin. Why? Because that would require absolute laws, pre-established by God, as to what is acceptable action, word, thought, etc. Step outside such laws and one becomes sinful. Simple. It’s a very Christian idea. But not […]

I said: Do not use terms in response to my image generation requests like ‘our’ and ‘we’ll’ that infer ChatGPT is a person or sentient being. This is not the first time I have instructed this. ChatGPT said: Understood. Future responses to image generation requests will be phrased without implying personhood, sentience, or collective identity. […]

What if victims are really neither children or any type of vulnerable person but ancient beings who have done it all (almost all) many times before? And while they may themselves presently be identifying self in victim terms, and onlookers see them in terms of their present bodily situation, they are all actually eternal souls […]

In this connection the reference sanskrit words are nitya-baddha (eternally conditioned) and anadi (beginningless). Firstly, our experience of life here makes it difficult to think outside the box of cause and effect – where everything has a beginning and end in time. However that is precisely the eternal arena that the words nitya-baddha and anadi […]

Maybe sin is not an actual thing. More a way of explaining why we are here, and at the same time not blaming God for the suffering of the world. Needed by those who doubt good reason for God’s creation. An attempt to distance God from what appears to be unworthy … incompatible with an […]