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Law of Karma
cannot explain this mystery. Though the world is an actual manifestation of the Absolute, it is not necessary for it. Creation is a free act. "So far as the Absolute is concerned, the creation of the world makes no difference to it. It cannot add anything to or take away anything from the Absolute ... we cannot say that the world follows from the nature of the Absolute even as the conclusion of the syllogism follows from the premises, as Spinoza would have us believed. The world would not be but for this possibility in the Absolute.",
As a matter of fact, Radhakrishnan feels that the qualities of existence, development, order, purposefulness, etc. that we notice in the world need an ontological foundation, and that can be provided by nothing less than the Absolute. The question arises as to why there is existence. Why is there anything at all? In the words of Dr. Radhakrishnan, “If everything disappeared there would be utier nothingness. If that nothingness was not itself the possibility of being, there could not have been anything at all. The existence of the world are imperfect and impermanent and nothing that is imperfect can subsist of itself or by itself, for in so far as it is imperfect it is not. The Upanishads lead us from the imperfect existence in the world to the Supreme and Absolute Being ... the existence of the world means the primacy of Being.'
his points out that the very existence of the world implies the existence of such being from which this world is derived. It is a pure being which is the basis of everything in this world. Radhakrishnan, at times, calls it the logical prius' of the universe.
This Absolute, according to Radhakrishnan, has to be spiritual in nature. Physical principles of the universe are inadequate to explain this multitude universe. They always stop at a particular point. So many things are beyond its reach. Hence, the explaining principle must be such as has the capacity to take us beyond. Aad such quality can be spiritual only. Hence, wo are enforced to think that the Absolute is a Spirit. But it must be pointed out here that this spirit is free. It is free in so far as there is nothing to limit it. There is nothing beyond it. Its freedom is uninterrupted.
