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by the order of some other person. If Isvara creates the Universe, simply out of amusement, then, he deserves to be desig. nated as a child full of mirth and if he has created the Universe out of compassion towards all living beings, he should not show his mercy towards some, and make others miserable by his evil will. All must be made equally happy. O Lord! What sort of mercy is it, when the all-compassionate benevolent Creator of the Universe, overwhelms the unfortunate living beings with the agonies of disease, poverty, and birth in low families full of innumerable miseries, caused by himself ? Now, suppose, Isvara-the Creator of the Universe-makes people happy or miserable only in accordance with their good or evil deeds, then he is not independent like our-self. Besides, if this diversity of existences in this world is caused by the agency of various Karmans, then, where is the earthly use of the Almighty Isvara who is penthroned as the Creator of the Universe? Or else, in
क्रीडया चेत्प्रवर्तेत रागवान् स्यात्कुमारवत् । कृपयाथ सृजेत्तर्हि मुख्येव सकलं सृजेत् ॥ ७ ॥
दुःखदौर्गत्यदुर्योनिजन्मादिक्लेश विहलम् । जन तु सृजतस्तस्य कृपालोः का कृपालुता ? ॥ ८ ॥
कर्मापेक्षःस वेचहिं न स्वतंत्रोऽस्मदादिवत् । कर्मजन्ये च वैचित्र्ये किमनेन शिखंडिना ? ॥ ९ ॥
अथ स्वभावतो वृत्तिरवितर्क्या महेशितुः । परीक्षकाणां तप परिक्षापेक्षडिंडिमः ॥ १० ॥
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