The Truth

Author(s): O P Jain
Publisher: Veer Nirvan Granth Prakashan Samiti

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GOD
CONCEPTS AND ATTRIBUTES
3.1 To understand the self and the Universe, it will first be necessary to examine the attributes of God, about which there is so much vagueness and misconception in this world and which is likely to cloud our clear thinking. In fact, most of the religious quarrels arise due to this misunderstanding and due to which man is not able to follow the correct conduct leading to eternal bliss.
i 3.2 The most widely prevalent idea of Godhead today is that there is one Supreme Being who is the maker and ruler of the World and the arbiter of the destinies of living beings, judging and awarding the fruits of actions of men according to their deserts.
- The notion of a World Maker arises from the analogy you cannot have a watch without a watchmaker, neither can you have a World without a World Maker". It is a poor logic, for analogy is no argument as every logician knows. The argument is self contradictory with respect to the maker of that supposed World Maker of ours; for, on the supposition that everything must have a maker, we would have to have a maker of that maker and so forth! There is no escape from this difficulty excepting by holding that the World Maker is self existent. Thus the above analogy is not correct and the World could exist without being created by any one. Actually the watch maker only assembles it from already existing materials and hence the illogic nature of the analogy.
i It is a known law of science that matter is indestructible and is composed of units which are not further divisible. Therefore how can they be manufactured in any way for they contain no elements which might be said to have been put together. Also, how can a thing, which did not exist upto a certain time, become indestructible i.e., eternal. Same logic applies to the case of spirit (i.e., the soul) which is said to be eternal. How can an object be eternal as well as a created article? This marks the limit of absurdity in metaphysics. Thus the