Who created the Creator – the God
- Part 2 -

Thangjam Sanjoo Singh *

Wat (Buddhist Temple) from Thailand - 2016

7. Thanks to the Buddha's voice because ordinary people are able

– To develop their faith and confidence.
– Educated people have food for thought and intellectuals have enriched their vision.
– Those misguided had their views corrected.
– Those who have not relied on blind faith have received a clear vision of the Truth.
– Sceptics were persuaded and won over by the voice of reason.
– Devotees gained confidence, understanding and liberation from suffering.

8. The Buddha is not a God

– The Buddha had a natural birth: he lived in a normal way. But he was an extraordinary man as far as his enlightenment was concerned.
– The Buddha's supreme enlightenment is more than enough for us to understand his greatness. There is no need to show his greatness by introducing any miraculous power. Every supernatural power becomes natural when people come to know how it takes.

9. A teacher who never had human frailty

– The Buddha was the embodiment of all the virtues he preached. His moral code is the most perfect the world has ever known.
– During his successful and eventful forty-five years as a supreme enlightened teacher, he translated all his work into essence and no place did he give vent to any human frailty or any base passion. — Prof Max Muller

10. Everlasting value and advanced ethics

– The Buddha gave expression to truths of everlasting value and the ethics of not of India but of humanity.
– The Buddha was one of the greatest ethical men of genius ever bestowed upon the world. —Albert Schweitzer

11. The Buddha supported human dignity

The voice of the Buddha is the most powerful voice that man has ever heard in support of the dignity of man and of the principle that man is the maker of his own principle of his own destiny, and that man is not for religion but that religion must serve man. That means: Without becoming a slave to any religion, man must try to make use of religion for his betterment and liberation.

Thought — Systems advanced by religion and by philosophy are not cognizant of truth

Religious traditions based on faith in an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent hold that the universe was created by him. Since his mental capacities far exceed those of human beings, the greater part his creation is incomprehensible to them and must be accepted on faith alone, or , in other words, accepted through explanation based on dogmatic teachings.

In India, the Hindu sacred Sankhya philosophy holds that the conscious principle (spirit) and matter (original substance) are two; jointly they partake in the creation of all beings and of the universe and furthermore, give rise to the egos of the great diversity of individuals. Prosperity is a manifestation of matter in evolution, while matter returning to its own beginning is referred to it as involution. In what follows, I wish to briefly discuss the aforementioned two doctrines.

The dogma of one Supreme Being as the source or the creator of the universe defies logic since it does not explain who created the creator. Their argument, when constructed in the manner of a syllogism, reads as follows:
– WHOEVER PRODUCES CREATIONS IS, IN TURN, A CREATION PRODUCED BY ANOTHER (MAJOR PREMISE);
– GOD PRODUCES CREATIONS ( MINOR PREMISE);
– THEREFORE, GOD IS A CREATION PRODUCED BY ANOTHER (CONCLUSION).

If the above argument is granted as true or valid, then God can no longer be considered omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. Conversely, when God is posited as not created by another, then the claim that God has created other existents must also be refuted. The Hetuvidya Sastra formulates the argument as follows:
– GOD CANNOT CREATE THAT WHICH EXISTS (AIM);
– NOR CAN BE CREATED BY IT ( CAUSE);
– NO ASPECT OF EXISTENCE CAN BE CREATED BY ANOTHER ASPECT OF EXISTENCE, AND NO EXISTING THING CAN CREATE ANOTHER (EXAMPLE OF SAMENESS).
– SPACE NEITHER CREATES NOR IS CREATED BY THE EXISTENT IT CONTAINS (EXAMPLE OF DIFFERETIATION).

A peach, an existent which has the potential to produce other existents (peaches), must, itself have been the product of other existents. In the light of the above evidence, then, the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent God is ruled out both in theory and in reality, of

One important school of Indian philosophy explains the world to be the result, or creation, of the Self (Conscious Principle).

In view of the above premises, self-becoming, or self-manifestation, is a process producing both the cause and the effect.

However, the Self, unlike the omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent God cannot exist independently of other existents. Every existent is, in some way, predetermined; and therefore the cycle of birth-and-death cannot be ignored or forgotten or avoided.

Philosophy and metaphysical as practised in the western hemisphere have developed numerous systems aimed at answering fundamental questions about human existence. Western schools of thought can be divided into three main groups, according to the way each of them formulates the problem – namely, Idealism, Materialism, and Dualism.

There is an on going scholarly debate among these groups conducted by experts in the field, but population at large appears to reap only meagre benefit from such argument and discussion in terms of getting answers about or help with the problems of existence.

The science prosper and their concerns are an abundant source of theories that yield the concrete results of research; but the answer to the question, or riddle, of human existence in the universe appears to be outside their range. Neither metaphysics nor science has advanced toward a clear solution to this fundamental puzzle, nor has either of them yet come close to providing a satisfactory answer.

THE BUDDHA IS FOR EVERY BODY
– To great philosophers and unbiased thinkers, he is a teacher who understood wordly conditions in their proper perspective.
– To moralists, he has the highest code of discipline and he symbolises perfection.
– To rationalists, he is the most liberal minded religious teacher who understood vexing human problems.
– To free thinkers, he is religious teacher who encouraged people to think freely without depending on religious dogmas.
– To agnostics, he is a vey intelligent, kind understanding and peace-loving man.
– To Hindus, he is an incarnation of their god.
– To socialists, he is a social reformer.
– To religious devotees, he is a holy man

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