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If, then, the universe is maintained by ceaseless change and the opposition of opposites, the experience of happiness cannot be known without its opposite: unhappiness. If you had the perfect life as you would imagine it, you would eventually be restless, bored, and unhappy. It didn’t take much to get Adam and Eve to leave paradise, right?  Yogananda commented that the reason God doesn’t talk openly with … Read More

In the first book of the Bible, Genesis, Adam and Eve are placed in a paradise. Instructed not to eat the fruit in the middle of the garden from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. You know the rest of the story. Adam and Eve disobeyed and ate the fruit and were banished from the garden by God.  How … Read More

God created the universe but life contains suffering as well as pleasure; satisfactions and accomplishments, as well as sorrow and failure. If evil exists, perhaps as a conscious force, did God create it? Questions such as these run to the core of our human experience posing an existential paradox.  If one posits that the creation does not require a conscious Creator in order to exist, then the questions are merely academic and … Read More

It is most ironic that Jesus’ crucifixion was ostensibly justified on the charge of his being a threat to Roman hegemony. Not only was that far from the truth but some of the Jews of his day would have preferred that Jesus HAD BEEN a threat to the Roman occupation. Both sides got it wrong, you might say.  It is also ironic that … Read More

This Sunday, March 24, is Palm Sunday. In the story of Palm Sunday long ago, Jesus enters Jerusalem riding a donkey as crowds received him chanting “Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of God!”   Ah how fickle is public acclaim. Only days later, the crowd shouted “Crucify him!”  But we do this daily or weekly too, don’t we? Maybe you come … Read More

In the Bhagavad Gita Chapter 8, verse 5, Krishna tells Arjuna that “He who, at the hour of death, thinks only of Me enters unquestionably into My Being.” This advice is all but universal throughout the ages. But woe to anyone who thinks by this shortcut to erase a lifetime of misdeeds. One might be unconscious at the time of death; or, death … Read More