Indian Logic and Atomism: An Exposition of the Nyaya and Vaiceshika Systems c19.s2.7

c19.s2.7

Finally, with some repetition, direct proofs for the existence of God are adduced. These are the nature of effects; the combinations of atoms in creation; the support and destruction of the world; the existence of traditional arts; the authoritativeness of the Veda which produces right knowledge in us and presupposes a being who imparted this virtue; its existence, which implies a maker; its consisting of sentences like books made by man; and last the peculiar nature of number: duality and subsequent numbers as we have seen have no absolute existence but depend on the relating power of the intellect and thus at creation it must have been God whose concept of duality produced the binary atom, which ultimately starts the formation of the world. The first five of these arguments, however, may be interpreted of scripture as referring to the purport of words, which is God; their explanation, due to God; their preservation through him; their significance in words denoting God; and the affix of the imperative which alludes in commands of scripture to the expression of the will of God.