GOD AND GOD-MEN IN VEDANTA (2)

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GOD AND GOD-MEN IN VEDANTA (2)

 

Swami Ashokananda

 

But having proposed such a God, Vedanta then speaks of God with

attributes, and, as such, it speaks of Him as being the creator and

preserver and destroyer of the universe - which seems rather a

contradiction of the first proposition. And, in fact, there Vedantists

sometimes halt and say, 'Yes, God exists and is endowed with all kinds

of benign qualities, but we are not quite sure that He is the creator of

this universe or that He has anything to do with it.' For example, in the

Brahma Sutras there is a very well-known discussion on how there can be

suffering and evil in God's creation. The conclusion given is that God

cannot be held responsible for any evil in this universe, because to

ascribe evil to God is to deny the very essence of divine nature. So then

they have to explain how all this evil and trouble came to be.