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________________ 124 Shrimad Rajchandra Letter 530 so. Both ethical and non-ethical qualities are ever present. However, you and I can adhere to ethical qualities and give up the unethical qualities. This action is essential for one's spiritual progress. It is inconceivable that all living beings will give up their unethical qualities in favour of those that are ethical. It is utopian to think that such a state of affairs will ever happen. Question 23: Will the world face complete annihilation? Answer: If by annihilation you mean the complete destruction of the universe, then that seems implausible for the fundamental substances can never be obliterated in totality. If by annihilation you mean the merging of all the individual souls into the supreme universal consciousness, then that may be considered to be possible by some schools of thought. But I find that to be implausible too, for in order to have such an occurrence all the souls would have to attain perfect equanimity, and how that could ever happen seems inexplicable to me. Further, if all souls were to ever attain such perfect equanimity, then it would be impossible to fall back into the materialistic world of dualistic existence. If by annihilation you mean that souls remain in dualistic existence from an external perspective while being perfectly equanimous internally, then the question arises as to how dualistic existence can ever come about without the association with the body, which in turn cannot come about without a lack of internal equanimity. By several such inconsistencies, it seems impossible that the universe would ever be completely obliterated.
| SR No. | 034032 |
| Book Title | Shrimad Rajchandra And Mahatma Gandhi |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Kumarpal Desai |
| Publisher | Raj Saubhag Satsang Mandal |
| Publication Year | 2017 |
| Total Pages | 107 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 19 MB |