the Concept of God

The Concept of God

• Iqbal believes in monotheism
• He conceives God as one, omnipotent, all knowing, and supremely good creator of the world.
• It believes that God is a personal God.
• The distinction between the God Ans the Absolute appears to be irrelevant to Islam.
• Iqbal tries to develop such a notion of God and shows that it satisfied not only the religious urge of man, but also the metaphysical curiosity.
• The nature and attributes of God have been interpreted from that point of view.
• Iqbal does not attach m…

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The Concept of Purusha & Proofs for the Existence of Purusha

• The two co-eternal, co-present realities of Samkhya School are prakrti and Purusha.
• The Purusha is the principal of pure consciousness.
• Purusha is the pure self, pure spirit, the subject, the knower and the subject.
• It is neither the body, nor the senses, nor the brain.
• Similarly, it is neither the manas, nor the Ahamkara, nor the buddhi.
• It is not a substance which possesses the quality of consciousness.
• It is the ultimate knower which is the foundation of all knowledge per se.
• It is the pure subject of k…

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Freewill and Determinism

Freewill and Determinism

According to Patanjali, “objectivity is something that we can disagree on from diverse perspective. ” His centrally claimed that when “we control representations we allow them to be true. We thereby abide in our essence, ” and when this control is perfect, all reality that reflects us as true representations thereby reflect their sources. Or else, we′d live under illusions, where we′d treat representations as objective. These considerations play a role in all of his arguments…

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