Law of Karma

SR No.: 007009
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nirmala Jha
Publisher: Capital Pubishing House Delhi
Publication Year: 1985
Total Pages: 168
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

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God works in an environment. “If God has no environment on which he acts, He cannot be personal. If God is personal, He cannot be the Absolute which has nothing which is not included in it in every possible sense of the world."";6
The dualism between God and the world is found in the beginning. God and matter are complementary aspects of creation. God creates the world out of raw matter. At the beginning, God's ideas and plans remain with him transcendent to the universe, but in the end they are fully expressed in the cosmos. The world manifests God continuously, till God is completely manifested in the world. The creator and the created coincide in the end. As the world reaches its destiny with God's fullest and perfect expression, it ceases to exist. God and world then become one and then takes place the dissolution of the cosmos. But Radhakrishnan points out that God is the cause of the universe not in the ordinary sense. God, as cause of the universe, lies outside it. He is prior to the world. To quote him, “The Spirit of God moves over the waters, the formless matter, the totality of possible existence. Vital impetus and raw matter are, for Bergson, the complementary aspects of creation. We cannot eliminate the dualism between subject and object, between God and the given in the process of the universe."1? Radhakrishnan is of the vicw that the change, movement, progress, evolution and spritualisation of the world take place when it is imperfect. But when the world attains perfection, there will be no evolution, no cosmic process and no spiritualisation. The fully perfect cosmos will then be motionless. Both God and world will have to work and will finally recede into God.
God though immanent is not identical with the world until the very end. Throughout the process there is an unrealised residuum in God but it vanishes when we reach the aim. When the reign is complete the kingdom comes, God who is Organic with the world recedes into the background of the Absolute.is