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and priority of existence. According to Radhakrishnan, God, as the universal mind working with a conscious design, who is at once the beginning of the world, the author of its order, the principle of its progress and the goal of its evolution, is not the God of religion unless we take into account the fact of religious consciousness. Our moral life tells us that God is not only the goal but the sustainer of our moral effort also. Our spiritual consciousness reveals us that the Supreme is all comprehensive one. There is an affinity between the structure of the world and the mind of a man. Radhakrishnan affirms that in the way of perceiving a rose, as we have to turn our eyes in that direction, for the objects are not subjective. In the same way, to realise the Supreme Spirit, a firm and purified mind is necessary. The reality of spirit is not invalidated simply because it is seen only by those who are pure in heart.
Radhakrishnan is of the view that the conception of God as wisdom, love and goodness is not a mere abstract demand of thought but is the concrete reality, which satisfies the religious demand also. The Hindu conception of God as Brahma, Viśnu and Siva illustrates this triple character. Brahmā is the permordial nature of God. God as Viśnu is sacrifice. He is continuously engaged in opposing every tendency in the universe which makes for error, ugliness, evil and cosmic strife. The Rg Vedā says : “All that is bare He covers; all that is sick He cures; by His grace the blind man sees and the lame walks."11 He is not so much man seeking God as God seeking man. He goes out into the dangers of the wilderness to lead us out of it. His love is His essential nature. He is for ever saving the world.
The redemptive function of God is an incessant activity. God manifests Himself in striking forms wherever and whenever new adjustments have to be brought about. It becomes emphasised when the moral order is sharply disturbed. In our Hindu mythology, these special revelations are called avatārās. The popular view holds that when darkness prevails, waters deepen and thing, threaten to collapse into chaos, God Himself becom's personally incarnate in a unique way. But the continuous urge of spiritual life, the immanent law which constitutes the unity of the world, are not consistent with the conception of unique revelation of complete Godhead on the
