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 into 'nothingness' in your science. You can eliminate Him as a cause. But He is a cause of all, and not the cause of any one particular thing. You are looking for a 'particular cause' and not for a 'general cause'. That is absolutely a meaningless point. A scientist would look for particular causes or particular effects and not for a general cause which operates in respect of everything in this world. You look from that point of view. You will see you have shrunk the God to Nothingness. It has become so indistinct that it looks like a point. God is a point or a speck. But when you go nearer, it becomes bigger and bigger and a vast one and an Infinite Ocean. So, God has got a very peculiar capacity unlike anything found in our visual experience to become the whole circle of things comprising the whole of the Universe when you go nearer and nearer. So that is how the atheist reduces God to a Zero.
Now master takes another example. He just says the fun about adding zeros to one. Zeros multiplied without 'one' result is nothing at all. But he takes one (1) and adds zeros. Then you will find that for each zero, the value increase ten times. 10, 100, 1000, 1 lakh etc. If '1' is to be one i.e. you, you are the person and if you add zero to your right, you will become bigger and bigger. The individual when he begins to look at himself begins to expand and so you will become very vast just as the zeros added to number '1' increases the value of the number. So, zero has value.
Place the zeros on the left side before the one 1., 01., 001. After a decimal point i.e., after negation of '1' I think, you become fractional and this can be done till the value of .00001 is equal to zero. He represents this as a very fine problem of numbers. The potentiality of zero seems to be infinite. Therefore, he says "I am prepared to accept the atheistic view that God is nil. I am also prepared to accept the mathematicians' term that God is zero and Infinite". This seems to be one way of looking at the problem of the importance of the zero in our lives. Zero is negation and the most objective way of knowing Reality is when you reduce yourself to nothingness.
Science also tells one thing. The observer must also be eliminated. Individual predilections, prejudices, omissions will have to be completely eliminated in objective knowledge in science. Now it is true in science also as in the gross way of the world experience and experiment, the individual































































































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