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Living creatures
are made of Panchabhutas; this is scriptural truth. They are
distinguished by movement, growth and decay, and so are different
from inanimate objects. They belong to both plant and animal
kingdoms. Though possessing life and potentialities, they lack
powers of expression, faculties of thinking and discrimination.
It is man and man alone is gifted with rationality, manifested in
thinking, feeling, speaking and reacting to circumstances that
establishes his superiority over the entire creation, and so deemed
to be the crown of creation. And moreover, he is created in
the form of God, the Almighty. He is alike him in form, size
and mental activity; yet he is not like him in powers inherent and
actions manifest, though emerging from that infinite energy
enshrined in that highest providence. God in his boundless
mercy blessed man with opportunities to evolve and rise to his
level. Well, there are certain aspects only. God
overjoyed at that spectacular demonstration of soul power and
blessed them suitably, or fulfilled their desires on occasions many.
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