SV: creation of human kind

[Bijoy Misra]

On Fri, 25 Dec 1998, Chris Beetle wrote:

> At 11:19 AM 12/24/98 -0800, you wrote:
>
> >In Hinduism, God cannot control the law
> >of karma, yet God is still seen as all-powerful.
>
> Just for the record, as far as I am aware, in the Hindu tradition, God is
> described as the controller of the law of karma.  One reference for this is
> a quote from a translation of Brahma-samhita by Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
> Thakura of the Gaudiya Vaisnava tradition:
>
This is narrow and to label it against Hinduism is not
appropriate.

The rest makes sense..

Good Christmas discussion..

- BM


> "I adore the primeval Lord Govinda, who burns up to their roots all fruitive
> activities of those who are imbued with devotion and impartially ordains for
> each the due enjoyment of the fruits of one's activities, for all those who
> walk in the path of work, in accordance with the chain of their previously
> performed works, no less in the case of the tiny insect that bears the name
> indragopa than in that of Indra, king of the devas" (Sri Brahma-samhita,
> verse 54).
>