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birth i brahma from the navel i the scriptural

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basis the lotus emergence the primary account

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of brahma's birth establishes him as the lotus

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born according to the puranic tradition at the

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end of the previous dissolution pralaya lord

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vishnu lay upon the serpent shesha in the causal

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waters from vishnu's navel a magnificent lotus

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sprouted and within the pericarp of this flower

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brahma manifested to begin the work of creation

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key references and citations srimad bhagavatam

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third canto chapter eight verses thirteen to

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fifteen describes the golden lotus as brilliant

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as a thousand suns sprouting from the navel of

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garbhodakasai vishnu srimad bhagavatam canto

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three chapter eight verses thirteen to fifteen

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available at wisdom lib brahmapurana chapter

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seventy one verses thirty six to forty two narrates

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the emergence of brahma in relation to the cosmic

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lotus and the process of creation padmasarga

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in the brahmapurana's account of cosmogony source

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standard sanskrit and english editions of the

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brahmapurana chapter seventy one verses thirty

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six to forty two chapter and verse numbering

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may vary slightly between printed editions matsya

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chapters one hundred sixty eight and one hundred

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sixty nine sometimes numbered as one hundred

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sixty seven to one hundred sixty eight details

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brahma's birth from the lotus arising from the

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navel of the lord during the padma lotus and

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the kalpa specific creation source standard sanskrit

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and english editions of the matsya purana primarily

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chapters one hundred sixty eight to one hundred

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sixty nine or one hundred sixty seven to one

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hundred sixty eight in some manuscripts which

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recount the padma kalpa and the naval lotus birth

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of brahma the scientific prosecution biological

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anomalies the scientific heights of the ancient

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sages are truly breathtaking here we see a complex

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biological entity a creator manifesting not from

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a womb but as a botanical parasite attached to

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a digestive scar let us examine the science behind

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this naval birth the mystery of the divine scar

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before we even address brahma we must ask why

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does vishnu have a navel in any biological framework

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a navel is empirical evidence of a prior birth

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it is the remnant of an umbilical cord that once

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connected a foetus to a mother's womb if vishnu

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is truly eternal and unborn why does he carry

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the anatomical proof of being carried in a womb

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does this not prove that vishnu himself is a

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created being born to a woman and therefore subject

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to death and decay the very existence of his

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navel destroys the idea of his eternity the umbilical

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paradox in mammalian biology the navel umbilicus

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is a scar representing the severance of the life

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-giving cord How can a scar, which is non -vascularized

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for reproduction, suddenly function as a reproductive

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canal or a soil bed for a flowering plant? Why

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do Hindus hold this belief, as opposed to the

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Bible, where the miracle is fundamentally rooted

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in the natural order? Mitochondrial Absence Science

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dictates that a child requires a mother to inherit

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mitochondrial DNA, mDNA. Since Brahma is born

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solely from the male Vishnu's navel, where did

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his 16 ,569 base pairs of mitochondrial DNA originate?

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Is Brahma a genetic impossibility? a human -like

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form with zero maternal heritage but a hindu

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will reject the biblical account of god forming

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man from dust because accepting it would undermine

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their established caste hierarchy and system

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the photosynthetic placenta a human fetus requires

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a constant blood supply through the placenta

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here brahma is sustained by a lotus stalk does

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this stalk carry blood or chlorophyll Was Brahma's

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brain development fueled by photosynthesis or

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the digestive juices of Vishnu's stomach? Waste

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Management A developing embryo produces urea

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and carbon dioxide. In a closed lotus bud, where

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did Brahma's excretory waste go? Did he spend

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his gestation period marinating in his own metabolic

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byproducts inside a flower? Anatomy of the Pillar

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The scriptures call this lotus the stalk of the

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universe. Biologically, a stalk is composed of

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xylem and phloem. How could these plant tissues

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support the skeletal and muscular weight of a

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full -grown deity without snapping? The God Who

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Forgets The Amnesia of the Lotus -Born in the

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very text cited as the basis for his creation

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the srimad bhagavatam the nascent brahma is depicted

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in a state of profound confusion a condition

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entirely incompatible with omniscience or true

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divinity scriptural testimony srimad bhagavatam

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canto three chapter eight verse seventeen the

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text states that upon his manifestation brahma

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was completely bewildered he looked around in

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all directions unable to understand his own origin

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or identity and seeing nothing but the causal

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waters and the massive lotus from which he sprouted

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he could not find anything but the water and

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the lotus so he began to consider who created

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him the theological implication this moment of

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existential crisis the amnesia of the supposed

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creator serves as the ultimate evidence against

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brahma's claim to be the supreme god absence

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of omniscience a true god must be omniscient

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all -knowing brahma's inability to identify himself

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his immediate surroundings or his source vishnu

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proves that he is a being with limited knowledge

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memory and perception he is a seeker of information

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not the source of it the flaw of dependence brahma's

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subsequent actions in the bhagavatam are defined

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by his need to perform penance and meditation

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to gain the knowledge and power required for

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creation he is not born with the ability to create

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but must earn it through external means Tapasya,

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demonstrating profound dependence on a superior

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power. Vishnu, contrast with biblical God, the

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I Am. The God of the Bible, when revealing himself

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to Moses, states his name as I Am that I Am.

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Exodus 3 .14 this signifies an eternal self -aware

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and self -existent being who is the definition

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of reality itself requiring no prior knowledge

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no instruction and no penance to know himself

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by contrast the lotus born brahma is the god

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of the who am I and the what is this place. A

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god who forgets his own past and does not know

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his own present is not a sovereign ruler of the

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universe, but a created being with a faulty memory

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chip. The biblical god is the ultimate being

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who knows all. Brahma is an object of creation

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who must struggle to know anything, even himself.

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The Energetic Discrepancy Photosynthesis versus

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peristalsis. To critique the sustenance of the

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naval lotus, we must contrast it with its biological

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counterpart. Feature. Feature. Terrestrial lotus.

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Actual world. Vishnu's naval lotus. Mythical

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account. Sustaining force. Photosynthesis. Light.

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Water. nutrients from soil mud divine power vishnu's

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life force energy source solar energy sunlight

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vishnu's nabhi navel vascular system xylem and

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phloem plant tissues the lotus stalk often equated

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with the cosmic axis waste output oxygen transpiration

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see point five waste management the actual science

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of sustenance in the natural world a lotus nullumbo

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nucifera is sustained by photosynthesis it requires

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sunlight a vast energy source water and a constant

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intake of nutrients nitrogen phosphorus from

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the surrounding sediment via its root system

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via its root system the stalk is a vascular transport

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system designed to move water and sugar not to

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bear the skeletal weight of a fully formed being

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the mythical impossibility how is the naval lotus

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sustained the lotus is said to sprout from vishnu's

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a navel as established is a scar not an organ

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for nutrient excretion for the lotus to survive

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vishnu would need to constantly excrete one of

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the following from his umbilical scar glucose

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sugars a super concentrated plant specific digestive

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syrup capable of sustaining a flower as brilliant

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as a thousand suns a vascularized blood supply

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which would mean vishnu is continually bleeding

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or secreting a life -force rich fluid into the

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prolialotters chlorophyll photosynthetic agents

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which is absurd as the power source for a plant

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must be external not internal to the host the

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critique of naval excretion the idea that the

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scar tissue of the navel could produce complex

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plant life -sustaining nutrients proves this

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account to be made -up nonsense a biological

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non -starter and a deliberate attempt to mythologize

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a common human anatomical feature if the supreme

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god's stomach is his reproductive organ then

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it completely collapses any distinction between

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the divine and the digestive tract the myth is

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based on the poetic fancy of a lotus being beautiful

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but fails entirely when subjected to the most

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basic laws of energy and biology three the logical

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contradiction of self -creation the concept of

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a supreme creator who must bring himself to existence

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is fundamentally incoherent and logically impossible

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the logical contradiction premise of action to

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perform any action including the act of causing

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one's own birth or manifestation an entity must

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already exist the flaw of self -causation if

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a being does not yet exist it cannot initiate

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the process that leads to its existence conclusion

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the idea of a self -creating entity is a blatant

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contradiction existence is a prerequisite for

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the action of self -causation. The account of

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a birth, such as Brahma causing a lotus to grow,

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is therefore invalidated by the logic that the

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agent must pre -exist the act. The Definition

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of True Divinity Eternality and Independence

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a true god is by definition without a beginning

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or a point of origin in space or time non -biological

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nature god as god exists eternally and independently

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he is neither born nor can he die the mark of

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dependence any entity that requires a biological

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process a botanical medium or the lineage of

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a predecessor to manifest is not a true god but

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merely a dependent creature falsely claiming

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divinity the karma of the navel unlike the sovereign

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god of the bible brahma is often described as

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being forced into this manifestation by the previous

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cycles karma He is not a creator by choice, but

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a functional gear in a cyclical machine. The

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Trace of Lust In related texts, Brahma's very

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first acts are defined by lust for his own mind

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-born daughters. this lotus -born god is stained

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from the moment of his emergence with the very

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passions he claims to regulate five the biblical

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contrast the sovereign incarnation what hope

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does a lotus -born god offer to the untouchable

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in the hindu system brahma is the architect of

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the varna caste system decreeing that the Shudra

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is born from his feet to be a perpetual servant.

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To the outcast, Brahma offers only the heavy

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chains of a Dharma that excludes them from the

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sacred lotus. Contrast this with the birth of

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Jesus. Jesus was not born of a curse, a plant,

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or a body part secretion. He entered humanity

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through a voluntary, holy, and uncorrupted virgin

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birth. Purpose. Brahma was born to build a system

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that enslaves the low caste. Jesus was born to

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break every chain and adopt the outcast as a

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child of God. Sacrifice. Brahma requires the

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sacrifice of the outcast in service to the Brahmin

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to maintain order. Jesus serves and became the

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sacrifice to offer the outcast eternal life,

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and there are no outcasts in Jesus' kingdom.

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while brahma sits on his lotus high above the

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filth of the world jesus stepped into the manger

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the very place of the unclean to prove that no

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one is beyond the reach of divine love