Chicago Prashnottar

Author(s): Vijayanandsuri
Publisher: Atmanand Jain Pustak Pracharak Mandal

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be established in regard to Godhead ergo Godhead is beginningless. Ishvara or God is nothing but the attainment of the stage of liberation which souls have either with or without bodies attained in the immemorial past or will obtain in the future. The state of liberation and God
are identical. 2. Q.-How have people come to believe that
there is God ? A.--Almost all believers in God have come to
this belief by observing various types of the wonderful creation of the world which they say cannot but be attributed to a Being of infinite power who is the creator and called God. This argument has led people to believe that there is God but it is fallacious, because both sentient and insentient beings are potential with infinite powers, which combining with each other by the operation of the five forces i. e., Time, Nature, Function, uninterrupted Activity and Motive power have been evolving and dissolving this variegated universe from eternity.