{"id":4456,"date":"2025-01-25T10:30:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T10:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bullseye.ac\/blog\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2025-01-25T10:31:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T10:31:01","slug":"the-essence-of-god-in-every-human-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bullseye.ac\/blog\/philosophy-literature\/the-essence-of-god-in-every-human-being\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essence of God in Every Human Being"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Number of words: 139<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vedanta says, there is nothing that is not God. It may frighten many of you, but you will understand it by degrees. The living God is within you, and yet you are building churches and temples and believing all sorts of imaginary nonsense. The only God to worship is the human soul in the human body. Of course all animals are temples too, but man is the highest, the Taj Mahal of temples. If I cannot worship in that, no other temple will be of any advantage. 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 \u2014 that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Excerpted from Karma Yogi by Swami Vivekananda<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number of words: 139 The Vedanta says, there is nothing that is not God. It may frighten many of you, but you will understand it by degrees. The living God is within you, and yet you are building churches and temples and believing all sorts of imaginary nonsense. 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