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a continuous flow & is never static when you dip yourself in river stream at one moment the next moment when you dip yourself the water stream is different your body is also different means it is older by one moment where there is unnoticcable change in both by reaction of surrounding atmosphere river & body is same, but body is changed by flow of blood, generation of new cells becoming old by a moment etc. in river water is continuously flowing so now you dip is in different water same is lamp flame when lamp is burning every moment it is producing new co, by consuming new O, burning new wax or oil also changes size of flame everything may continue as series. Similarity of same members gives our mind illusion of sameness as in flame of lamp appears same at two moment but bas no substantial identity.
Doctrine of identity in similarity accept change is partial in one & total in other.
James - Spiritualism is affirmation of an eternal order. Decartes - My existence must have cause one might refer to
his parents, their parents & 50 on. It is impossible to produce any satisfactory, final explanation of his existence without going beyond the limits of ordinary empirical causation & attributinge it to God as ultimate cause.
Kant - Principle of causality is applicable only in the sensible & has no meaning outside it. Hence to attribute the existence of any contigent being or to the efficacy of God as its ultimate cause is not satisfactory explanation. If God is active man can't be free he is determined. If God is spectator man can retain its freedom. There is no need of superpower.
What is God? Designer mover, actor, creator, spectator, ruler, personal, impersonal, owner, real, unreal. It is just a faith. In need man created God as super power imaginry thing perfect omnicient being. It is idea a thought of human being, supervisor of mans actions & for judging sin deed & misdeals to decide fate & destiny.
God is man made entity Who is architect designer of this complex body mind universe? Was it evolved accidently by chance or causally?
G.E. Moore says whole universe is declared to be spiritual means in some sense conscious but there is higher form of consciousness in human which is intelligent is purposeful, & not mechanical.
Nyaya - God exists because Veda says & Vedas are true because they are created by God. It is ay circle which has no starting point, beginning or end.
Gita - God is dictator under whose supervision prakriti acts. Mimansa & Sankhya don't believe in God as creator of World.
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