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FOREWORD
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Refutation.
1. Things really are not caused by their Avayavas (constituents) and there is really no Avayavi (whole) which are the reasons to establish God. (Vide Dravyapariksd ).
2. As the bodies, etc. are not Avayavis ( whole ) there is no necessity to formulate an eternal and one God who will combine the constituents ( Avayavas ).
3. Even if we admit the whole and the members of the whole, in that case only some intellgent and unknown persons can be inferred as creators on the strength of the reasons adduced, but not an eternal or one God. If only this is wanted to be established then there is no disagreement between us, because we also admit persons as creators of the Universe according to their good and bad actions done in previous births. The inference is therefore irresistible that the Universe is not the production of one and an eternal being because it is produced by degrees and by the process of evolution, and not simultaneously.
4. We do not accept that the souls remain without consciousness in the time of Pralaya or the destruction of the world, as others do. But we hold that the chain of consciousness remains, not only at the time of the destruction, but also after it, either in the upper heavens or in the lower regions in accordance with its good or bad acts, with the same conformations, memory eto, and therefore in the beginning of creation it does not require the help of God for instruction on conventionalities. That God also cannot be the instructor, as he is formless and as he refrains from doing any good or bad actions which will result in a body.
5. God cannot be the cause of the Universe, because he him. Belf is not created just as the lotus of the sky cannot be the cause of anything.
6. As God is not the creator he cannot be omniscient, as his omniscience was established on the strength of his being the creator, oue and eternal.
| SR No. | 010566 |
| Book Title | Tattvasangraha 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Embar Krishnamacharya |
| Publisher | Central Library |
| Publication Year | 1926 |
| Total Pages | 832 |
| Language | Hindi, Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 57 MB |