Disclaimer of the policy that the God is only the efficient, not material, cause of the world.
"The Indian 'Vedant' says that the Lord is both the efficient and the material cause of the world."
He is the ruler of the cognizant and souls , which are different from him, such a view leads to inconsistency, How? Because it makes the Lord partial to some and prejudiced against others, for some people are well off in this world, while others are miserable.
How Indian 'Vedant' get out of this difficulty? , It replies : The Lord is impartial, but He directs the individual souls according to their merit and demerit earned in previous existences. For the scriptures say so, and if you accept spiritual authority, in this you have to accept this statement., " I WILL BE MANY " etc.
Which shows that the Lord is both the efficient and material cause.
As the Lord is devoid of parts, and so also the souls, there can be no conjunction between the Lord and them, and consequently they cannot be ruled by Him.
Even as the individual soul directs the sense organs which are not preceved, so also we can take it that the Lord rules.
The analogy is not proper, the soul enjoy pleasure, suffer pain, etc. from which we infer that it rules the organs. If , the Lord also would suffer pain and pleasure caused by the .....etc.
The Lord and the souls according to them are infinite and separate. Now the question is , does the omniscient Lord know the measure of the soul, and Himself or not? In either case the doctrine of the Lord's being the mere efficient cause of the universe is untenable.
If the Lord knows their measure, they are all limited, and therefore a time will come when they will all cease to exist.
Again, if he does not know them, then He would cease to be omniscient.
"Moreover the theory involves many contradictions.sometime it speaks of the forms as qualities of 'That' and sometimes as the 'That' itself."
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