Lecture Lahore — Page 29
2 9 perfect purity as removes all the stains of sin, they do not seek it and even oppose it due to their inherent prejudices. We can only pity the A ryas, because they have not only lost all hope of attaining true God-realization, but do not even possess any rational argument to prove the existence of God. They surely cannot prove His existence while they believe every particle and every soul, with all its fac- ulties, to be eternal and self-existent. It is also futile to try to prove Parmeshwar’s existence by arguing that the par- ticles need someone to assemble them and to infuse souls into them, for why should the particles require anyone else to do this when they themselves are powerful enough to have sustained themselves through eternity, and are vir- tually their own 'Gods'! Surely no one will accept that even though the particles or atoms do not depend upon anyone else for their existence and sustenance, nor are the souls dependent on anyone else for their existence and sustenance and their powers, they still require outside help to join or separate them! These beliefs do make the A ryas easy prey for atheists. I also feel sorry for the A ryas because they have committed serious errors in both aspects of their doctrine. First, they believe that God—Parmeshwar—is not the source of all creation, nor the fountainhead of all blessings; and that all particles and souls and all the faculties are self-existent and have not partaken of His favours. In the context of this be- lief, can anyone tell us what is the use of such a Parmeshwar, why He should be considered worthy of wor-