Book Title: Divinity In Jainism Author(s): Harisatya Bhattacharya Publisher: Devendra Printing and Publishing Co LtdPage 15
________________ 11 If God be looked upon as the Creator of the universe, He must be admitted to be an embodied being, for, without a body, there cannot be any creation of a gross thing like the world. The Nyiya philosophers may maintain that so far as the creation of the world is concerned, it is enough if God has intelligence, creative will and effort , He need not have a body But the Jaina objection is, If there be no body, there would knowledge, will and effort be? If you regard God as a perfectly disembodied Being like an emanicipated Soul, He cannot have the intelligence, the will etc. of a Creator ; so that the creation of the world by Him becomes impossible. If God be supposed to be the Creator, He must be supposed to be an embodied Being and consequently, a finite one too. With regard to the doctrine that God has created the universe out of kindness, the author of Pramèyakamala-mārtanda says like the occidental anti-theists, " It is not proper for a kind Being to be an author of pain--to create pains and furnish animals with bodies for feeling them." If God is kind why should creatures feel pain at all ?Page Navigation
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