Chicago Prashnottar

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

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would be created simultaneously in all the three worlds, would never be created at the same time because only where potters are present, pots will be made and not where they are not present. God. is omniscient. If He were not so, He could not be able to know the material causes of all the products. If He did not know the material causes of the products He would not create a variety among the objects. God is self-dependent not relying upon any one else. He dispenses fruits of happiness or sorrow by His own will. "It is by the will of God that the worldly beings go to heaven or hell. Without Him they are unable to reward or punish themselves for their virtuous or wicked deeds."
If God is dependent upon some one else, then He will not be regarded as the chief author of the world. There will also come in the fallacy of argument in a circle if one God is dependent upon another and another upon the third and so on and so forth.