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and uncreated. If you ask- “How the Jivas etc. and heaven, etc. came into being?" Our rejoinder is- "How Param Brahma came into being?" You might ask- 'Who made all these like this? We will askWho created Param Brahma like this?' You may say- “Param Brahma is self-established”; we will say- "The Jivas etc. and the heaven, etc. are self-established". You will say- "How is the parity between these and Param Brahma possible?" Then you should spell out the flaw or fault in the possiblity of their existence. We have already pointed out many flaws and faults in the belief that the universe is newly created and gets destroyed. Now you tell us what is the fault in believing the universe beginingless and endless.
You believe in the existence of Param Brahma, but no such separate entity is there. There are Jivas in this world; they attain the state of passionlessness and omniscience by acquiring the right path of liberation through right knowledge.
Further, he argues- “You are maintaining that the Jivas are separate-separate and eternal, but after their attaining liberation, they become formless, how is then their remaining separate-separate possible there?
Answer: After attaining liberation, they are seen by omniscients or not? If they are seen, some configuration of them would also be visible. What did the omniscient see without seeing the form? And if they are not visible then either the substance itself is not there or the omniscient is not there ! Hence from the viewpoint of knowing through material senses they have no form; from this angle they, the liberated souls, are formless. But because they are known by omniscients, so they have an immaterial form. When their immaterial form is established then what is wrong in accepting them separate-separate? And if you say that they are one from one class point of view, then we also believe like that. For example, each grain of wheat is separate-separate but their class is one; in this way, if they (the liberated souls) are believed to be one then their is no fault.
Thus on the basis of right faith, all substances in the universe are to be believed to be uncreated, separate-separate and eternal. If someone under fallacy does not ascertain the truth or falsehood then
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