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صورت انها را به عنوان انسان آید و آن را به روی این منابع بدان می‌دهد.
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body to another. If this were not the case, how can so many multifarious bodies come into existence? If the next birth is a fact, the next bodily form is also a fact. As soon as we accept a material body, we must accept the fact that that body will be annihilated and that we will have to accept another body. If all material bodies are doomed to annihilation, we must obtain a nonmaterial body, or a spiritual body, if we wish the next birth to be anything but false. How the spiritual body is attained is explained in  Bhagavad-gītā :
janma karma ca me divyam evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti so ‘riuna
“One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.” (Bg. 4.9)
This is the highest perfection by which one can transcend the transmigration of material bodies and return home, back to Godhead. It is not that existence becomes void or zero: Existence continues, but if we positively want to annihilate the material body, we have to accept a spiritual body; otherwise there can be no eternality for the soul.
We cannot accept the theory that the Buddhist philosophy is the only way, for there are so many defects in that philosophy. A perfect philosophy is one that has no defects, and that is Vedānta philosophy. No one can point out any defects in Vedānta philosophy, and therefore we can conclude that Vedānta is the supreme philosophical way of understanding the truth. According to the Buddhist cult, the  Vedas  are compiled by ordinary human beings. If this were the case, they would not be authoritative. From Vedic literatures we understand that shortly after the creation, Lord Brahmā was instructed in the  Vedas . It is not that the  Vedas  were created by Brahmā, although Brahmā is the original person in the universe. If Brahmā did not create the  Vedas , but he is acknowledged as the first created being, wherefrom did Vedic knowledge come to Brahmā? Obviously the  Vedas  did not come from an ordinary person born in this material world. According to  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam ,  tene brahma hṛdā ya ādi-kavaye : after the creation, the Supreme Person imparted Vedic knowledge within the heart of Brahmā. There was no person in the beginning of the creation other than Brahmā, yet he did not compile the  Vedas ; therefore the conclusion is that the  Vedas  were not compiled by any created being. Vedic knowledge was given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who created this material world. This is also accepted by Śaṅkarācārya, although Śaṅkarācārya is not a V
It is stated that mercy is one of the qualities of a Buddhist, but mercy is a relative thing. We show our mercy to a subordinate or to one who is suffering more