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SPIRITUAL LIGHT.
(4) Pure Consciousness as in Adwaitism.
(5) Ideally Perfect Soul-a Soul that has reached the fullest spiritual development and that therefore can become a guide to other mortal beings.
wey, I
These are some of the concepts of God. If to have the true meaning of the word, God, we shall have to put these definitions to a test of analysis. The idea of a Personal Creator, in the first place can not stand the test of reason; there are SO many difficulties in accepting this idea. If we say that a personal God created this world, the first question arises why should God create the world at all? Several varying answers are given to this question. One system says that it was His pleasure to do so, another says, that He wanted to manifest His glory and wanted beings to sing His praises; a third says, that He created this world so that men may attain perfection and so on. But none of these answers is satisfactory. If it was the pleasure of God to bring into existence this world we can attribute two imperfections to Him. First that He is not free from attachment and hatred (Raga and Dwesha ), as He is supposed to take pleasure in creation; and secondly, this is far more serious, His creation is full of imperfections which in fact goes to prove His own imperfect nature - it detracts from Godhood. We see an amount of misery in the world: Can we say God takes pleasure in seeing His Creation miserable ? If He wanted to create, could He not have created a world inhabited by beings living in all happiness? Men in
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