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TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
This world-creator is the infinitely intelligent God. There is obviously some similarity between the Naiyāyika argument from effect to its intelligent maker and the teleological argument of the modern theists, “—that theistic argument which proceeds on the principle of finality and which reasons from the rational constitution of the world to the necessity that it should be grounded in a purposive intelligence." It is also called the 'design argument' (Telelogical Argument-Dictionary Of Philosophy And Psychology).
According to the Naiyāyika's, God is necessarily omniscient. He makes such a body and such environments for each soul as are exactly in accordance with its Adrșța.'
The infinite forms of the Adịşta of the infinite number of souls, the infinite ways of their fruition, the infinite means and environments for their enjoyment, the nature and the competency of the infinite number of atoms as materials of creation and the infinite methods of creation can be present only in the infinite intelligence of the all-knowing God. Omniscience must be attributed to God: otherwise, his creative function becomes impossible?.
JAINA CRITICISM OF THE SAMKHYA AND THE NYĀYA-VAIŠEȘIKA THEORIES
TheJaina's, as we have seen, maintain, against the contention of the Mimāmsā school, the doctrine that omniscience
न चात्र कार्यत्वमसिद्धम् । यथाहि-कार्य पित्त्यादिकं सावयवत्वात् । यत्सावयवत्वम् तत् कार्य प्रतिपन्नम्। यथा प्रासादादि। सावयवं चेदं । तस्मात् कार्यम् ।' -..-. "ईश्वरस्य सर्वज्ञस्य सृष्टिकर्तुत्वसमर्थनम्" प्रकरणे
--प्रमेयकमलमार्तण्डः। ५ 'यस्य यथाविधोऽदृष्ट: पुण्यरूपोऽपुण्यरूपो वा तस्य तथाविधफलोपभोगाय तत्सापेक्षस्तथाविधशरीरादीन् सजतीति "ईश्वरस्य सर्वज्ञस्य सृष्टिकर्तृत्व समर्थनम्"। प्रकरणे--
प्रमेयकमलमार्तण्ड : सर्वज्ञता चास्याशेषकार्यकरणात्सिद्धा। यो हि यत्करोति स तस्योपादानादिकारणकलापं प्रयोजनं चावश्यं जानाति'।
ईश्वरस्य सर्वज्ञस्य सृष्टिकर्तृत्वसमर्थनम्---प्रकरणे-प्रमेयकमलमार्तण्डः ।
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