The Truth

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

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GOD
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attributes. The idea of God being only 'one' implies that all souls by nature in their pure state) have exactly identical attributes like the atoms of an element.
God is, therefore, omniscient, eternal, blissful and endowed with infinite energy. He has no duties or obligations to perform. He should be above undertakings and should have no desire to be worshipped or praised by men. He would not interfere in the affairs of men or inflict upon Himself the management of the Universe. A God should have no unfulfilled purpose or unsatisfied craving or ambition and for this reason, He would not manage or create a World. Divinity should ever be tranquil, unagitated, restful and unswayed by any outside circumstance or force. Passions like anger and greed do not move a God; He is not subject to grief and sorrow.
In view of the above, the God is above private loves and hatreds, rituals and sacrifices. He is free from hunger, sleep, heat or cold, from which only mortal beings suffer. Sex function has no place in the life of a God and He is neither male nor female, these being associated with physical bodies only. .
Al impure spirits may attain to a Divine status, as many have done in the past, and many will do in the future. All spirits are alike in respect of their natural attributes and qualities, so that when they are purified no difference remains to distinguish one of them from the other. Apart from the pure, perfect spirit, there is and can be no other God.
Having cleared our mind from vague notions about God and the Universe, we are now in a position to examine scientifically the whole question of l' and the Universe without fear and favour.
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