The Criterion for Religions — Page 35
35 this belief. As for Aryas, they do not consider God to be the Creator of souls and bodies, nor do they believe that He has such a relationship with all things as would prove them to be the result of His might and a reflection of His will. Instead, from their belief in the permanent nature of things, one gets the impression that they consider everything to be eternal in its own right, with neither beginning nor end. Since they consider all existing things to be no longer within God's authority nor dependent on His power for their existence, therefore, they become so alienated from Parmeshwar of the Hindus that even if we suppose Him to be dead, the souls and bodies would be none the worse for it. This is because their Parmeshwar is just like a mason, and just as bricks and mortar do not exist by virtue of the mason's personal power, so as to be completely dependent upon his existence, similar is the case of all existents vis-a-vis the Parmeshwar of the Hindus. Just as the death of the mason does not mean that all the buildings he has built in his lifetime will also collapse, similarly the death of the Parmeshwar will not necessarily result in any harm to other things, for he is not their Sustainer. 13 If He is their Sustainer, 13 That which has not been created with the help of Providence, does not need it for its survival either. !Author I