Choosing Human and Animal Lives
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fallible, and is the highest destination. Going there, one never returns from that, My supreme abode.” (Bg. 8.20,21)
The Vedic religion, or  varṇāśrama-dharma , is also called eternal because no one can trace out its beginning. The Christian religion has a history of 2,000 years, and the Mohammedan religion has a history of 1,300 years, but if we try to trace out the origins of Vedic religion, we will not be able to find a beginning.  Varṇāśrama-dharma  is accepted as the eternal religion of the living entity.
We often say that God created this material world, and this means that God existed before the world. Since the Lord was existing before this material manifestation, He is not subject to this creation. If He were subject to the laws of the material world, how could He have created it? That the Lord is simultaneously identical with His creation and yet exists in His completeness apart from it is stated in  Bhagavad-gītā .
mayā tatam idam sarvam jagad avyakta-mūrtinā mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni ma cāham teṣv avasthitaḥ
na ca mat-sthāni bhūtāni paśya me yogam aiśvaram bhūta-bhṛn na ca bhūta-stho mamātmā bhūta-bhāvanaḥ