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 .That this explains the material world. We could further explain and give attention to various contemplations of free will and the principles of determinism. After all, why would God create downloads of Himself ? Robotic ” yes men “or ladies don’t transmit love . It appears a percentage of Gods children were unsure of having a close and direct  relationship with Him , this material universe is , the Vedas say ,  evidence of free will and determinism at play right before our eyes .
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 . However, they are totally absorbed in God’s energies as well as  His other parts and parcels . Most  are absorbed so deeply , but  some begin to puzzle their way out of their realised entanglements within time . When Divinity puts on an illusory show, it’s 100% perfect .
With the Ai and algorithmic systems that follow us in remarkable ways  beyond the comprehension of most , that  we are currently encountering , what is the difficulty to understand this concept of  imprisonments of minds and senses with bodies , designed and functional 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.

http://www.thevedicspectator.com

---