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Law of Karma
This is the way in which Dr. Radhakrishnan introduces God in his Philosophy. The Supreme has been conceived as revealing itself in two ways-Absolute and Iśvara. God is the Absolute in action; God is the creator. The real in relation to itself is the Absolute and the real in relation to the creation is God. Radhakrishnan is of the opinion that man's religious as well as metaphysical aspirations must be satisfied. The Absolute is the object of metaphysical aspiration and God is the object of the religious aspiration.
This shows that, unlike Sankara, Radhakrishnan does not reduce God to unreality by making it a product of Māyā. God is real in so far as this universe is real. God is an aspect of the Absolute. The real as infinite possibility is the Absolute, but when we limit the Absolute to its relation with that possibility which has actually been realised in the form of creation, then the Absolute appears as the Creator, as Wisdom, Love and Goodness-as God. Radhakrishnan explains it very clearly : "We call the Supreme the Absolute when we view it apart from the Cosmos, God in relation to the Cosmos. The Absolute is the pre-cosmic nature of God, and God is the Absolute from the cosmic point of view."10
We have already seen that the inadequacy of naturalism shows that the world process for its law and creativeness requires a creative power. We have also seen that the rationality of the universe suggests that the creative power is mind or spirit. There is no reason why we should identify it with vital force or life. As Bergson suggests, Descarte's argument is also known in the field of Philosophy as he states that since we do not owe our own existence either originally or
om moment to moment to ourselves or other beings like ourselves, there must be a primary and fundamental cause, God. But God is not the cause in the ordinary sense, for that would make Him an event within the series of events. The cause of the world lies in a sense outside itself. God is prior to universe, but not in any temporal sense. He is the logical prius of the world.
From this it follows that the ultimate creative energy of the universe is one and not many. It possesses unity, consciousness
