Thread by @Satyamshakti9

Why aren't Indians intrigued by the idea of an almighty god who is the creator and ruler of all things and has the power to decide what to do with all beings? What discredited him? What does it contradict in the Indian subconscious and philosophy?
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There are a few questions here merged as one and I am answering from a particular Hindu perspective (Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis, Buddhists, Sikhs and animists are also “Indians”.)
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Firstly to establish the identity of a CREATOR - he, she or it should demonstrate the qualifications of that post.
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Just as you would not employ a secretary who knows nothing about computers, or entrust yourself to a surgeon who knows nothing about anatomy or
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get your Tax return done by an accountant that doesn’t know math, so why would you accept a creator who knows nothing about the universe and how it works?
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None of the available sacred texts that promote a “creator” can demonstrate that the applicant has a thorough working knowledge of the laws of physics or the expanse of the Universe.
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Secondly, in order for creation to occur there must be three causes, using the example of the potter we have:-
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Efficient cause - the potter
Material cause - the clay
Auxiliary causes - the wheel, time, water, modelling tools etc.
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Now in respect of the Universe - let’s assume for the sake of argument, that an Almighty God is the efficient cause of this universe of 2 trillion plus galaxies, expanding into space.
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From where did the material and the auxiliary causes come? The material cause being energy (E=MC2).

We Hindus do not hold with the absurd idea that something can come from nothing, (nothing is what rocks dream about!)
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And if you say that God is the cause - then the cause must be inherent in the product (just like ghee is the product of milk as the cause) –
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so in other words Universe consisting of energy (Shakti) is a transformation of the Cause and not a different product. So once again the idea of an invisible immaterial creator of a material/energetic universe, different to him or herself is rejected.
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Conclusion - the Universe is eternal, and as such has no need of a creator. It undergoes cycles of contraction and expansion, alternating between potentiality and actuality and has no point of beginning and ending.
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Thirdly if we accept the idea of a creator different to the Universe, who created the Universe from nothing, and given the inconceivable vastness of the universe
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why would said Almighty absconding Creator be so concerned with tiny insignificant creatures on a very insignificant grain of sand whose lives in relation to timelessness are not even a blip on the radar of eternity?
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So in conclusion there are three theological perspectives of God and her relationship to the universe. All three models are found in the various schools of Hindu philosophy the one most popular and preferred is PANENTHEISM.
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This is what Vedānta has to say about GOD or BRAHMAN.
Credit Rami Sivan
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