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I <strong>AM</strong> : M. M. Ninan<br />
There are other alternatives, which are also perfectly logical. Some of<br />
these possible alternatives are:<br />
= There is nothing but God (Paramatma – Great Spirit). Then all that<br />
we are and we see are parts of God - not only consciousness (Jeevatma<br />
– Living Spirit) but also non-conscious matter and non-matter<br />
(Prakriti). (Act 17:28) for 'In him we live and move and have our<br />
being'<br />
= It is God who forms the conscious-ness. All matter and nonmatter<br />
are created by this God.<br />
= From the coarse human viewpoint, there is God and there is<br />
also matter and non-matter. They are the primal duals.<br />
Interactions of these are what form the events and experiences. In<br />
effect we have all sorts of permutations possible with these basic<br />
existence of<br />
1) God (Paramatma)<br />
2) Non-Gods (Jeevatma)<br />
3) Matter in many dimensions (Prakriti).<br />
We can have these possibilities:<br />
A] (1) self existant who creates (2) and (3);<br />
B] (1) and (2) both self existent as a unity of consciousness and<br />
this (1,2) unity create (3);<br />
C] (1) and (2) both self existent as separate entities and this (1) and<br />
(2) create separately or jointly (3);<br />
D] (1), (2)and (3) coexisting.<br />
There are other possibilities too.<br />
So, we can see that there are many logical possibilities and we<br />
cannot really establish or refute the existence of God. Hence, we<br />
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