Quratulain’s Reviews > The Problem of Evil and Indian Thought > Status Update

Ramanuja “God and individual souls are distinct and have existed from eternity.”

“if it is objected that in the beginning there could have been no differences, and the Lord must then be responsible for the differences(good and evil) that came, then we counter- there is no beginning.”

“The Lord has no choice. The cosmic process is automatic...destruction must occur whatever God’s feelings in the matter.”

“The rebirth solution can thus be used to explain and justify the most abominable cruelty.”

“Nearly all Hindus accept the cyclical theory of history and cosmology. Their point is not so much that the creation is good or bad(they don’t say) but that it has to be destroyed.”

Creation by Creator: play without purpose (Lila)

“To act without purpose is not to act at all.”

“Brahman cannot be the cause of the world because to cause or create involves motives or purposes and if Brahman has either he is imperfect.”

“All delusion is caused by human ignorance. That ignorance is, caused by human failings in a previous existence.”

“The beginningless response to the golden age assumption”