My thoughts

As by birth I am Hindu so, I have heard a lot about atma, parmatma and so many devi, devtas from the very childhood. The oldest memory of my that strike is 4 years of age, when I use to be busy seeing by mother doing seva puja of Lord Krishna and my grandmother attending all the God and Goddess she had in the attar of her small Puja Room. My father a stern Durga Bhakat, observed Durja Puja Paath and bhog with full devotion. Had seen plurality of faith in the same small family consequently I very well understood at tender teenage that faith and devotion vary from individual to individual. Studied in Catholic convent school, where religion was linear, one God, one religious book, one story and one faith. I did not find anything awkward in it although I belonged to a totally different religion. To absorb and understand whatever my moral science nun teacher taught me about God, as I had heard so many other version of God from many more respectable people in my life. Subsequently t

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