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I am the Soul
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According to the Vedic belief, the Creator of this Universe is Brahma, Vishnu is the Protector and Shiva is the destroyer. These three are believed to be the supreme powers and it is through these powers that the wheel of creation and destruction of this Universe is run. Thus this whole world was created by Brahma.
I would want to know, who created all our worlds? What is meant by our world? What do you believe is the world? Your possessions, wealth, sons-family, and beyond all these the spread of your relations, isn't this your world? Who created this world? You may say, “this has been coming on always the same way'
Okay, we could broadly consider so. Yet when we look in depth, we are ourselves responsible for creating our world. The attachment and aversion and the passions lying within us are instrumental in erecting our world. We are clear on the fact according to Karma philosophy that any person, any thing that we consider our own, has in some way been connected with us earlier. That is why we are in touch with the person, or the thing. What we have got is all because of our possessive nature. What we did not get was because we were in no way connected with it. It is evident, therefore, that the passions and possessive nature residing within us evolve into the relations with persons or things.
An urge within to acquire something, results in the creation of relations. Thus, our feelings of attachment and aversion result in the creation of the external world, and we have ourselves created the internal world too. We also nourish and protect the worlds and we alone can destroy them. Hence, we have within us the powers of Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh.
The more intense our feelings of attachment and aversion get, the wider the field of our attachment and aversion becomes, that is, the external world grows wide; and as the feelings of
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