The Patterns of Plants

Musings from Siva's Garden

\"The Hindu knows that we will have as many opportunities as needed to refine and evolve our nature\"

\"a thousand lives or more if needed.\"

\"We dont have to think that we only have a single chance, a one life in which everything must be accomplished and all desires must be fulfilled.\"

\"Therefore, we are not in a hurry. We are patient.\"

\"Hinduism is a hopeful and comforting religion.\"

\"Hope for a future life makes this life worthwhile, joyous, contented and happy,\"

\"because the Hindu can live and deal with current problems, knowing that they are transitory problems, that they will not last forever; nor will they affect us forever.\"

\"They are problems; we cannot deny that. But they are problems to be worked out with a positive attitude and a high energy and a helping hand from our Gods.\"

\"The Hindu also wants to improve conditions in the world, in the physical world.\"

\"We do not look upon all that happens to us as unreal.\"

\"That is a misconception.\"

\"It is real. Life is real. It is through life that we progress.\"

\"Life is the means provided by the Primordial God for finding Reality.\"

\"True, it is maya. But it is maya in the form of mind, in the form of form.\"

\"Maya, or form, or mind, is created for a purpose,\"

\"to help man evolve, not to bind him in illusion.\"

\"The Hindu understands this.\"

\"We want to help humanity, and simultaneously we know that we may well return in another physical body.\"

\"So we are working not only for ourselves, but for our loved ones,\"

\"not only now, but in the future as well.\"

\"We are improving the world for future generations\"

\"in which we will play a part.\"

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