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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Nyāya Vais'eşika
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from misapprehension (mithyā jñāna). He is completely selfsatisfied; all his desires are already fulfilled. Nothing remains for him to acquire; therefore, he is perfect. God is completely free from pleasure and pain. He has not created the world for his own pleasure, for he is free from pleasure The world is created by him out of his compassion for his people of the world who are like children to him. In fact, the eternality of the atoms and the souls is incompatible with the creatorship of God. God acts as the final agent who uses the things of the world and the sense organs of the individuals as instruments. As God does not possess a visible body of determined inagnitudes, he is imperceptible and he can be known by inference by cause and effect relation. As a jar or a sprout which is an effect cannot come into existence without a cause that produces it, so also the world, though extremely huge in form and permanent because of the atoms which form it, must have some cause who must have created it out of the already existing eternal atoms and joined it to the souls. God has the direct and close knowledge of the world as he possesses omniscience and eternal intelligence and hence, he does not need memory and inferential knowledge. The Nyāya God or the Supreme Soul is not the all-pervading spiritual reality of which we are only imperfect manifestations, but he is outside men and outside the world and acts only as moral governor and administrator of the world whose omnipotence is limited by other eternal entities. Ā 19
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| SR No. | 020053 |
| Book Title | tman_and_moksa |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | G N Joshi |
| Publisher | Gujarat University |
| Publication Year | 1965 |
| Total Pages | 901 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 12 MB |