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" He is the repository of an infinite number of blessed qualities''

-that is their definition. He cannot create without materials and

nature is the material out of which He creates the whole universe.

There are some non-Vedantic dualists, called " Atomists " , who believe

that nature is nothing but an infinite number of atoms, and God's

will, acting upon these atoms, creates. The Vedantists deny the

atomic theory; they say it is perfectly illogical. The indivisible

atoms are like geometrical points without parts or magnitude; but

something without parts or magnitude, if multiplied an infinite

number of times, will remain the same. Anything that has no parts

will never make something that has parts; any number of zeros added

together will not make one single whole number. So, if these atoms

are such that they have no parts or magnitude, the creation of the

universe is simply impossible out of such atoms.