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Dec 2023
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1217: If All is Matter, What Really Matt...

RAGHUNATH CAPPO & KAUSTUBHA DAS
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response to a Stephen Hawking anti-nugget - we get it that computers don't have an afterlife, but their users do / response to a Christopher Hitchens anti-nugget - we get it that germs cause disease, but where did the germs come from? / the forgotten past of microbiology from Sage Scientist Kanva in the Atharvaveda / nobody has a monopoly on truth / It takes a scientist, a  philosopher and a theologian / If we're just bags of chemicals, why give holiday gifts? / Sattvika-bhavas - unpremeditated, involuntary expression arising directly from the spiritually surcharged consciousness / unconquerable Krishna is conquered by love / even Brahma is a secondhand God

SB 6.16.31-35

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