Chicago Prashnottar

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

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( 22 ) There was only one pure, intelligent, and blissful existence. This is what one class of people believe in. The other class believe in the beginninglessness or eternal existence of God pure, intelligent and of blissful existence, soul, atom, space, time, directions or quarters, (altogether nine substances) &c. of which the universe is made up. Both these existences are believed to be eternal. Which of these two views about God do you hold ?
9. Q. I hold the first view about God because
the Vedas and the other scriptures declare thus.*
* NOTE.---From this spirit emanated Ether; from ether emanated air;
from air, fire; from fire, water, from water, earth; from earth, berbs; from herbs, food; from food, semen; from semen, man; the man is thus made up of food and fluid. Tattriaya Sakha.
O dear, He alone was in the beginning-one without a second ; He saw and the multifarious beings were born. Chandogya Upanishad.
Neither was it nor was it not ; nor was it existent nor non-existent &c. &c. Rigveda.
Atma alone was in the beginning.not anything else. It saw and the beings were borne. Aitraya Brahman.