We can put it  to the unthinking atheist or the philosophically minded , that theoretically if there were a God , and He had  expanded Himself to become the  many , each particle of consciousness originally coming from His consciousness . We could further give some  contemplation to free will and the principles of determinism. After all, why would God create downloads of Himself ? Robotic ” yes men “or ladies dont transmit love . It appears a percentage of Gods children were unsure of having a close and direct  relationship with Him , this material universe is evidence of fred will and determinism at play .
Welcome to the material world where incomprehensible arrangements are made for ” freedoms of expression ” on a gigantic scale, those  involving 8400000 species of life, all with independent existence and forgetfulness of God , but totally absorbed in God energies and His other parts and parcels , they are absorbed so deeply , and some begin to puzzle their way out of their realised entanglements in time . When Divinity puts on an illusory show on its 100% perfect .
With the Ai and algorithmic systems that follow us in remarkable ways , and beyond the comprehension of most ,  that we are currently encountering , what is the difficulty to understand this  idea in a supremely perfected state .
There is a controlled systematic order with the physical laws  , there is math and perfect symmetry within nature , and there is  coded information within the genome that builds perfectly constructed bodies . All these examples should bring to the attention of an inquirer , what is happening in the world, and why it is happening the way it is .

One can never really understand God through academia alone . One can never really understand God through sentiments alone , but both processes can be helpful if a little  faith and intelligence is properly directed that is towards devotion of something much greater than ourselves,  even in the beginning its just Nature , and recognition of God in nature .

Ultimately, by engaging in some devotion , further knowledge and realisations will come about, and trancendental feelings will increase , Krishna tells us this in the Bhagavad Gita.

Without knowledge, sentiments alone can hamper one’s advancement in devotion . Equally, knowledge without loving sentiments limits one’s relationship with God .

Thus, automatically, by engaging in services to God, trancendental sentiments increase as well as knowledge about His glorious activities, form, and pastimes within both the material and spiritual worlds .

The most advanced devotees have knowledge of God and pure trancendental sentiments towards Him,  but  of the two  pure loving trancendental sentiments wins out, and  knowledge becomes secondary.

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