1212. Paradox of the Stone....!

In the 12^th century Andalusian Islamic philosopher and thinker Averroes who was a stern follower of Aristotle had a question to challenge the existence of omnipotence by incorporating the paradoxical use of twisted logic. His question was, “Can the Omnipotent God create a huge stone so heavy that He cannot lift it?” This question is used by Atheists and Rationalist since more than millennia. If the answer is “yes” then there is a stone that God cannot lift. If “no” then God is unable to create a stone huge enough that he cannot lift. Either way the answer to this question will put “God” into fix.

What would a Sanatani say about it???

Sanatani would not consider this paradox to be logical and he might feel this question is weird. A Sanatani has experienced “God” not as a human as he knows that Hiranya Garbha, the primeval energy is the source from which this entire universe is emanating. This primeval energy in a dormant state before this universe came into existence. When the Primeval Energy became vibrant, as Rigveda puts it, the universe we experience emanated from Purusha, the Primeval Cosmic Being. Purusha is described as all that has ever existed and will ever exist in future. Purusha is the personification of that Primeval Energy.  

I think this philosopher from the west who has this paradoxical question was born around the same time when Srimad Ramanuja was taking to us about the six Kalyana Gunas (Auspicious Attributes) of Purusha namely Jnana (Wisdom), Bala (Power), Aishwarya (Opulence), Shakti (Strength), Virya (Vigour) & Tejas (Splendour). That Purusha who is all-pervasive is name Vishnu, in Sanskrit. In simple words Vishnu is in all and He is all, now what feat is impossible for Him??? 

If we have read the tenth canto of Srimad Bhagvatam we have Hiranya Kashyapa asking Brahma a boon which was Lokaviruddha (Paradoxical) in nature.  He requested, “O Supreme! Let my death not occur by the hands of either human, or animal, or deva or demon. Let me not die indoors or outdoors, neither during the day nor night, and neither by weapons nor mantra, neither on earth nor sky. Let me not be killed by any one born from Andaja (one born out of egg), Jaraja (one born out of womb), Shakaja (one born out of moisture) or Udbija (one born out of seed). Let me not die on Earth or in Space, or in Fire or Water, inside a building or outside, not by a weapon of holding (Sword) or throwing (Spear/Arrow), by any thing that is animate or inanimate nor by anyone created by you (Brahma)”. 

Manifestation of Narasimha was the answer, nothing is impossible is the key for Omnipotence. This is how Purusha can beat all paradoxical norms. When Hanuman was crossing the ocean to land in Sri Lanka shores he encountered Surasa, the she-demon who put a condition that whoever wishes to go past her had to pass through her mouth. Hanuman using Mahima Siddhi, first made himself so large that Surasa could not swallow him, but she opened her mouth wider and wider. Then is a swift action Hanuman shrunk himself to the size of a dust mote using Anima Siddhi and flew between Surasa’s teeth. If a devotee can perform such a task effortlessly imagine his master. Can’t the Lord of Hanuman create a stone so huge that he cannot lift and make it float in thin air without even touching it???