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ages. India was a veritable wonderland of philosophic free thought. It may be asserted with some amount of confidence that the ancient Indian thinkers developed the perfectionist theory as well The author of the Yoga philosophy distinctly says.
" There is such a Being who is absolutely untouched by Pain, Action, Effect of Action and Volition He is God (Îsvara.)
" In Him inheres the seed of absolute Omniscience"
“He is not measured by time and is the Teacher of all the previous teachers"
This is the Indian theory of the Perfect Being. The Greatest of the great, the Highest of the high, the Wisest of the wise is God, the Perfect Being,this is the doctrine of Patanjali Bhöja-rāja, the commentator says —
“The phenomena like greatness, smallness etc, are found to be of various grades An atom is the last stage in smallness whereas space is the highest limit to greatness In the same way, the attributes of the mind, ego, intelligence etc, are found to be of varied degrees. Hence there must be some Being in whom these psychical attributes are seen in their utmost perfection This Being is God'
