Early Writings — Page 48
48 THE this is a false analogy. If, however, you had proved that the crea- tion of souls is contradictory to an attribute of God, or is opposed to His grandeur and majesty, as it is for God to create a partner like unto Himself, your claim invariably would have proved to be valid. So, your demand that it is for me to prove how God created the souls clearly demonstrates that you are in total denial of God's natural powers and consider Him, like man, to be dependent on means. And, if, by what you have written, you mean to state that you fail to rationalise how God manages to create the souls, I have already refuted this objection by saying that in order for it to be established that God is the All-Powerful Lord, there is no precon- dition that man must also be able to understand all His works. There are thousands of such phenomena in the world as are beyond human comprehension. Besides, there is a difference between a phenomenon being incomprehensible and for it to have been established as being impossible. Lack of evidence in respect of how God created the souls does not establish that God is unable to create the souls. For absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Is it not possible for our flawed wisdom to remain unable to comprehend the secrets behind a particular act of God while God possesses the power to perform that act? In fact, the very definition of divine power is to be free and pure of the blemish of dependence on means, and to be beyond the scope of human comprehension. To state, in the first place, that God is All-Powerful and then to suggest that His providence cannot act beyond the limits of material means amounts to the denial of His very Being. For if, by inherent nature, He is All-Powerful, what would be the meaning of this if He is dependent on the help and support of another? Do the Hindu scriptures you believe