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Philosophy of Dr. Radhakrishnan
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the relation of God to the world as one of the soul to the body. God is the sustainer of the body as well as its inner guide. Struggle and growth are real in the life of God. Time is essential from the cosmic standpoint. Absolute is beyond the time but God is essentially bound up with the life in time. The process of the world is an emergence under the guidance of God, who is immanent in the process, though the goal is transcendent to it. The process of the world is not a mere unfolding of what is contained in the beginning. The end of the world is not contained in the beginning. Those who have any appreciation of this fact, cannot adopt the view of preformation. Bergson who emphasises the creativity of evolution, seems to think that the whole of evolution of life with its progressive manifestation of structure is latent in life. To quote him, "Life does not proceed by the assimilation and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division."15 The creative impulse is present from the beginning, but the forms created are due to the cosmic stress. That alone can account for the ordered character of the world of varied tendencies. A God who has arranged everything at the beginning of the world and can change nothing, create nothing new is not a God at all. If the universe is truly creative, God works as a creative genius. There is thus an element of indetermination throughout the process, though it diminishes in degree as the amount of actuality increases.
God, though immanent, is not identical with the world until the very end. Throughout the process there is an unrealized residuum in God, but it vanishes when we reach the end. God, who is organic with it recedes into the background of the Absolute. The beginning and the end are limiting conceptions, and the great interest of the world centres in the intermediate process from the beginning to the end. God is more the saviour and redeemer than creator and judge. As an essentially human phenomenon, religion insists on the "otherness" of God. Worship, love and repentance have no meaning without it.
As a personal being, God is limited by the selves, and cosmos. Though God is Omniscient, Omnipotent and absolutely free, His activity and fre:dom are limited by the freedom of selves.
