Jiva

MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA
M.M.NINAN
something called outside of God – another dimension where God did not occupy, where
there was nothing. So God was not alone in the beginning. There was this outside of
Him. God then created the cosmos ex-nihilo out of nothing into this nothing outside of
Him. If nothing can come out of nothing, the world would turn out to be illusion and not
a reality.
Thus God remained transcendant and totally the other. Then he entered into this
creation to be immanent. The problem here is the assumption that there was a
dimension beyond God himself (with all the infinite dimensions within Himself) called
nothing, none the less very real. This has all the problem associated with the virtual
particle proposition of materialism. The way out is proposed by Madhava that there is
Isvara and outside of Isvara is the cosmos.
There are two realities, they are eternal Iswara and Cosmos. In this Cosmos, God
entered to be immanent to guide and control it.
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