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Studies in Haribhadrasūri
Truth as it is. Having defined the divine nature thus, he declares that who ever is endowed with such qualities is acceptable to him as a divine being. This idea he has expressed in the following verse:
Pakşapāto na me vīre, na dveṣaḥ kapilādișu / Yuktimad vacanaṁ yasya tasya kāryaḥ parigrahaḥ // 'I am not partial towards Mahāvīra, nor do I hate Kapila and others. He who have speaks rationally, his words must be accepted. Yasya nikhilāś ca dosā na santi sarve gunāś ca vidyante/ Brahmā vā visnur vā haro jino vā namas tasmai //
'The god who is devoid of all the faults, and is endowed with all the good qualities, may he is Brahmā, or Vişnu, or Siva, or Jina. I bow down to him.' Haribhadrasūri has concluded this topic after showing the necessity of good qualities in the divinity.
Various beliefs about the World: The other topic of great important in the philosophical field is about the nature of the world. Acārya Haribhadrasūri discusses all the above theories and states that first of all one must think as to the source of this world, was it from Sat or A-sat? If it were taken to be from Sat, it will be logically faulty, because Sat survives as the same in all the three times. How can A-sat be created from Sat? It cannot be vice versa, too. Therefore, the world with all its things persists in all the three times. There is no need to posit a Creator for them. Creation or destruction is but relative. Total creation or destruction is impossible. Therefore, a substance should be accepted as subject to creation, subsistence and destruction.
Criticizing the concept of God of the theistic philosophers, he states that if the creation of the world depends on some Creator, and is that creator is created by God, who created the God? If one argues that God can be uncreated, then why can the world, too, not be without a God? Moreover, why did the merciful God create such a world? Why did he make the world
