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Philosophiy of Dr. Radhakrishnan
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The world and the Individual selves are imperfect. The divine work is possible only when they are limited and imperfect. If the world and selves were eternally perfect, there would have been no activity at all. The very existence of God depends on their imperfections.
Furthermore, God satisfies the religious sentiments of man. The Absolute is transcendent to the universe. Like Tagore, Radhakrishnan also conceives that we are not interested in the Absolute in its purity but as Māyāvi. We are less concerned with the canvas than with the painting done on it. God is the redeemer and the saviour. As a saviour, He purifies and spiritualises the world more and more. God descends on earth in the human forin to remove evil. The conception of Avatāra in Hindu mythology emphasises the descent of God on earth again and again to purify the cosmos from evil.
To review the conception of Absolute and God in the connection of ultimate reality, we may now point out that God is a personal being. His activity is possible only when He is limited. If He is infinite and limitless, there cannot be environment. On the other hand, the Absolute is infinite, impersonal and pure being. It is without any activity. Again, God having no environment, cannot be personal. If God is personal, He is not Absolute, for the Absolute is infinite and includes all existence. God's existence is possible only in relation to an environment.
God is the creative personality acting on an environment. This world is the field of His action. Though, God is allpowerful, it is limited by the activities of the human individual. The Omnipotence of God has, therefore, limitations. God's existence depends on the creation of the cosmos and its evolution. If there is no universe, there is no God, and if there is no God, there can be no universe. In other words, “The being of the personal God is dependent on creation even as a creation depends on God.''19
Lastly, the cosmos and God exist in the Absolute, God is a reality other than the imperfect souls and the world, though they are derived from Him. The Absolute comprehends all principles, realities, God and the world. It is also beyond all these expressions. The Absolute is infinite reality,
