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darkness. And this it did and later started crying ―Father, Father, why hast thou forsaken me?‖
God replied: ―I have never forsaken you, and I stand by you always, ready to remind you of who you really are and ready always, to call you home.‖ Our true nature is light and bliss and the Vedic prayer ̳Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya‘ in reality has no meaning as darkness is a term that the Spirit does not know. Darkness really is the absence of light. We can study light, but not darkness. We know how dark a certain space is by measuring the amount of light present. Darkness is a term used by us to describe what happens when there is no light present.
It is the desire for the experience that makes us create a statement of who we are and what we want to be. It may be noted that it is this desire to experience that is the basis of all bondages later. When the soul persisted to experience, the benevolent God said to the soul that it might choose to be any part of God as it wanted to experience
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