The Truth

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

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THE TRUTH
unless. He suffers from the same weakness of conceit and pride as mortals do.
The concept of Creator, ruler and a judge inspires awe' rather than true respect and devotion towards God and one gets a feeling of being a slave at the mercy of his master. This relationship is not conducive to clear thinking or correct conduct for spiritual evolution. This is likely to convert us into a team of inactive beggars. Infact, the idea of God as a Creator, Protector, Ruler or Judge seems to have arisen out of weakness of man who found some solace under the care of a super being and to frighten people against evil deeds. The practice of animal-sacrifice before Gods is a direct result of the concept of rulership with all the passions attached to that office.
If the Universe was created, it implies the conscious creation of something useful or useless. If the former, why was a useful thing not made before; if the latter, the Creator is a frivolous wastrel.
If the Universe was created for the first time, it must follow that before its creation, God was not Krita Kritya, one so perfect that nothing remained to be done by him. If he only creates a destroyed Universe, the explanation is simple that it is merely a cycle of change going on and needs no external agency.
3.5 When the mundane soul, by proper efforts, becomes a Perfect Pure Soul, it certainly creates its own perfect condition of infinite knowledge, infinite perception, infinite power and infinite bliss. It is in this sense that God can be said to be the Creator. Since in this state, the soul is able to perceive the whole Universe, its past, present and future, all at every instant, it may be said to create the Universe
The case has been well put in the Bhagvad Gita (v. 14-15) in this respect:
न कर्तृत्वं न कर्माणी लोकस्थ सृजति प्रभुः । न कर्मफलं संयोग स्वभावस्तु प्रवर्तते ॥ नादन्ते कदंब चितं पाप न चैव सुत्कृतं विमुः । आतूनेनावृतं ज्ञान तेने मुहनान्त जनत्वः ।। ।