Sacred Philosophy

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

Page 12

theology prevalent in our midst to-day, the supposed maker of our world is pure Effulgence, having neither hands nor feet, so that it is impossible for such a being to directly operate upon any material.
This should ordinarily be sufficient to dispose of the matter, but prejudice is not so easily satisfied. We shall now be told that at a word of command--a sort of creative fiat-of this world-architect things began to shape themselves and assumed the forms he desired them to take. Observation, however, belies even this assumption ; for nowhere in nature do we find a case of unintelligent raw material obeying the command of a manufacturer. I may fret and foam and command as loudly as I am capable of doing, but it is certain that the papers lying before me on the table will not budge a hair's breadth from their places unless I put myself in a position to deal with them physically in some way, whether directly by hands, or indirectly through some visible or invisible mechanism. It is thus clear that no one could have ever made the world by a mere word of command.
As for the second point, i.e., the non-functioning of substances prior to the making of the world, it is obvious that things cannot be imagined as lying altogether functionless prior to the commencement of the process of manufacturing. As said in the Practical Path (pp. 6 and 7, Footnote):