Timeline for If the God of Hinduism is omnipotent, can he destroy the soul (atma)?
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| Mar 30 at 5:10 | comment | added | user34138 | @অনু Puranas describe occasions when God empowers certain beings to be more powerful than even himself, even though that should not be theoretically possible. So there is no reason he shouldn't be able to do this either unless he is not omnipotent at all. | |
| Mar 30 at 4:46 | comment | added | অনু | The answer which you accepted already states that from an Advaitic perspective, the individual soul is verily of the same essence as that of Paramatman, so destroying an individual soul is akin to destroying Paramataman itself. So you are basically asking an oxymoronic statement - If God can't destroy itself, God isn't omnipotent. And may I know why are you so hell-bent on disapproving the age-old conclusion of God's omnipotence in Hindu thought & seeking annihilation of individual souls ? | |
| Mar 30 at 2:54 | comment | added | user34138 | @অনু Does God have the power to destroy souls or no? If he cannot, he cannot be truly omnipotent. (Let's not concern ourselves with if he would or not, only with if he can) | |
| Mar 29 at 13:47 | comment | added | অনু | If you say that God's refusal to interfere with destiny & karma is a proof of God's inability to do so, then the reply is - the law is always greater than the lawgiver because once the law is madre, even it's creator can't override it. If God were to interfere with the basic Supreme laws like karma & destiny, nobody would have respected or followed those concepts. | |
| Mar 29 at 13:43 | comment | added | অনু | Regarding Krishna being unable to change Duryodhana, it occurred because Krishna didn't reveal his full potential to a morally corrupt being like him as he did with Arjuna. Duryodhana was just a medium to eliminate sinful kings like Jayadratha, Jarasandha, Bhagadatta etc etc. So if Duryodhana did change his mind, those sinful monarchs who sided with him would have continued to reign, thereby invalidating the main reason of Krishna's avatarana - परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृतां . In Hindu scriptures, we do seldom see God interfering with destiny & karma. | |
| Mar 29 at 13:32 | comment | added | অনু | The same Mahabharata also states that Krishna had the power to repel off Gandhari's curse but he CHOSE NOT TO DO. Krishna was completely able to avoid the bloodshed of Kurukshetra war, but if he did so, then it would have invalidated many previous curses & vows, like Bhima's vow to kill Duryodhana, Arjuna's vow to kill Karna, Parashurama's curse on Karna etc etc. And to think about it, if the Kurukshetra war hadn't occured, we wouldn't have received the Bhagavad Gita of eternal appeal. | |
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| Mar 29 at 6:19 | comment | added | estimator | check out the Aswamedhika parva discussion between Bhagavan Krishna and Utanka. Bhagavan Krishna says he made multiple efforts to convince Duryodhana and others, but as Kauravas were adharmic, they did not listen. | |
| Mar 29 at 4:25 | comment | added | অনু | Just because Ishwara WILLN'T change how people act contray to their nature, you can't conclude that Ishwara CAN'T do that. That is a very premature conclusion. Ishwara is omnipotent, but Hindus don't conceive Ishwara to be an egoistic being like the Abrahamic Yahweh who has to repeatedly destroy things in order to retain following. | |
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