Question: how does one resolve the seemingly contradictory notions that on one hand, God/consciousness is everywhere in everything equally, and on the other, some places and some people are more sacred and holy than others? It's a function of apparentness. To those who are misled and confused by false notions, the divine is variously less or more present. But to a saint or a sage, a jnani or a mystic, God/consciousness is indeed everything and everywhere and the perception is
Who said that? ; )
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