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Oh My GOD!

The moment I have realised God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. Swami Vivekananda We have over the centuries freed God from the temples of our bodies to stone walled temples and stone made idols where God resides albeit only in our minds. Bound in chains of our greed and selfishness it is not to God whom we pray to but an imaginary magician whose only job is to fulfill all the wishes and desires of all humans. Now, of course the point to be noted here is that these desires and wishes are of all types with varying degrees of greed, self-centeredness and self-indulgence. Is that all God does, indulge us if we indulge him by praying to him, bribing him with money, gold and sweets? Does God exist because we need him or is it that he exists thus we revere him? I have been told that the answer lies in spiritu