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frauds under the pressure of deceit, started accumulating belongings (paraphernalia) being overpowered by greed and so on, - what more to describe? Thus being overpowered by passions, they started doing many censurable acts, such as the immodests' act of snatching off the cloths of the ladies, the thieves' act of looting the curd, the mads' act of wearing the wreath of human heads*, 'the ghosts' act of making different forms of the body and the plebeians' act of cowkeeping (herdsmanship) etc.; what more censurable acts would have resulted on being overpowered by Maya is beyond comprehension !
Believing Brahma etc. who are found with censurable external acts and intense carnal desires etc. to be deceitless is similar to believing cloudy no-moon night as without darkness.
Further, he says that the sex-passion, anger etc. do not overpower them; this also is a sportive act of supreme God. Our question is "Such passional acts which he does are done with desire or without desire?' If he does with desire then the name of desire of sexual intercourse itself is sex-passion, the name of desire of combating itself is the anger passion and so on. And if he does without desire then the act, which he himself does not want to do, is caused only on being dependent on someone; so, how is dependence possible in Brahma? Further, you regard this as to be a sportive act; so, if the God performs such sportive acts by reincarnating, then why do they preach the other Jivas for getting liberation by detaching themselves from such acts? The discourse of observing forbearance, contentment, chastity, continence, etc. all is proved useless.
* नानारूपाय मुण्डाय वरूथ पृथुदण्नेि,
नमः कपाल हस्ताय दिग्वासाय शिखण्डिने ।
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Further, he says that God has no motive; just for the sake of keeping the wordly phenomena running he incarnates* for protecting the devotees and punishing the cruels. Then we ask him: "Without any motive even an ant does not do anything, why would then God do so?" And you have also told the purpose that "He acts for the sake
*परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् ।
धर्म संस्थापनार्थाय संभवामि युगे युगे ॥ ( गीता 4-8 )
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