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Hindu Ideas of Creation

In Our Time

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The Mystery of God Brahma

There's always a hesitancy there that actually God is unknowable. Rams pointed out that in some of the hymns, this is recurrent refrain saying, but we don't really know. There is always that idea throughout the whole of the tradition it seems to me. And it seems to be one reason for a certain degree of toleration of other positions within the Hindu tradition. We have to grasp the idea that of always some being entity, whatever is always being there, there's no beginning and obviously there's an end. That's what we have to get hold of. To be even to begin to understand what we don't understand.

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