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may be asked whether nature creates the world or no.
If you say that it is the nature of God to create the world, then it will prove that God will keep on perpetually creat ing the world i. e. He will never cease creating as He is endowed with the nature that always creates. If you say that it is not His nature to create the world, then God will never be in a position to create it. If God has an eternal nature to create, then there would be no Pralaya or dissolution of the universe because it is not
God's nature to destroy. If you say that
God's nature is twofold creative as well as destructive, then no world will ever be created or destroyed for two such powers in opposition to each other will never abide simultaneously. If they do, the world would neither be created nor destroyed, for when the creative power is creating the destructive power will be working havoc or vice versa.
This only leads one to consider that what we believe is true i. e. the world has
