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MIRA AND MAHAVIR
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MAHAVIR-I know that argument. But it means nothing to me. What does it matter who lives when Man dies? Who would be there to think at all-at least in the way men do? And so can God live if there is no one to think of him? A thing exists for us only when we can think of it. Now tell me, why do we think of God at all? Can you deny that we think of him only in our sorrow and sickness, disappointment and death? If we could overcome these, if we could know what we desire, achieve what we aim, we would not think of God. God is born of weakness, of frustration, of sin, we call upon him to save us. law of, Nature or of man, we pray to him to intervene, to avert the consequence of our actions, the effect of our cause. The rich invoke his assistance to preserve their wealth, while the poor cry in vain, and starve and die. The heartless tyrant raises an altar to his name to celebrate the conquest of a brave but helpless people whom he has despoiled and enslaved. That is your God of individuals, the God of nations a convenience and a fraud, a comfort and a dope. Can you deny this?
despair. When we When we break a
KRISHNA-But if you wish for life, beauty, knowledge, and strength, you may idealize these, and call that image of perfection God. That surely is not physical. MAHAVIR-If that is your idea of God, I am sorry for you. I see all these things in Nature. Look at its
