Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c8.s9.24

c8.s9.24

Haribhadra in his *Śāstrārthavārtāsamuccaya* raises a potent objection to theism on the basis of man’s choice and freedom. If a man has freedom of choice and has to decide his own course of action, God becomes unnecessary. Then trying to reconcile with theistic presumptions, he adds that the noble souls who have attained liberation may be called as gods.