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inhere in other souls, and hence they cannot inhere in God.
Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
It is, however, true that the capacity of guidance and supervision cannot exist in the atoms or particles as they are unintelligent. Guidance or supervision necessarily implies some kind of intellectual manipulation of relations of the things of the world. Similarly, individual souls are powerless to guide and supervise the working of the whole world. Prabhakara does not find any necessity for there being any originator of the world since, he looks upon the universe as a continuous process which has incessant internal change in it but which has no beginning and no end. Everything is causally related in an orderly fashion, and the universe works systematically with the agelong laws of nature. He does not think that there is any necessity for the interference of an ultramundane agency to run the universe. The orderliness of the world is due to the mechanical rigidity of the operation of the principle of adṛṣṭa, which is supposed to be the ultimate determiner and regulator of the world-affairs. Therefore, the necessity of the existence of God does not arise. It is difficult to conceive that the atoms act by God's will, since we find that the movements of the atoms are controlled by the individual souls. Kumarila also critically examines the problem of God and sees no reason for admitting the existence of God. He examines the various grounds on which God's existence is proved and finds that none of them is conclusive and convincing.
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