The Truth

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

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i. e., neither agency nor actions does the Lord create for the World, nor does He bring about the union with the fruit of actions: all these are caused by the nature of things; the Lord does not remove the sin of anyone, nor take away the merit of anyone's good deeds. Knowledge is enveloped by nescience, hence are mortals deluded.
Sri K. N. Iyer writes in Permanent History of Bharatavarsha (Vol., 1, page 295) :
“The creation of Brahma...virtually means the destruction of all the worldly desires and the consequent rising of a devotional tendency in man. Vishnu preserves and develops the buddhi created by Brahma and does not preserve any other absurdities. Shiva is primarily the cause of Brahma's creation by his destroying the worldly desires, and lastly, he is the cause of final liberation by annihilating the good effects of religious devotion and practice. Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva... exhaust the religious requirements for the final emancipation of man."
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The eminent philosopher Huxley writes in Tradition, p. 258, :
Science and Hebrew
“If the divine might is associated with no higher ethical attributes than those which obtain among ordinary men; if the divine intelligence is supposed to be so imperfect that it cannot see the consequences of its own contrivances; if the supreme powers can become furiously angry with the creatures of their omnipotence and in their senseless wrath, destroy the innocent alongwith the guilty: or if they can show themselves to be as easily placated by presents and gross pattery as any oriental or occidental despot, if in short, they are only stronger than mortal men and no better, then, surely, it is time for us to look somewhat closely into their credentials, and to accept none but conclusive evidence of their existence.”
The fact of the matter is that the error lies in the misinterpretation of the scriptures which in most cases are mythological in character and, cannot be taken literally. Truely speaking, Omniscience, immortality and bliss are the natural attributes of