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MIRA AND MAHAVIR
KRISHNA-So many do nowadays. Never mind the fight or the argument. But, of course, you live: don't you? MAHAVIR Of course, of course. I mean I don't believe in him. and who is he by your side? prize in a public debate, and you can see it. I do not, cannot believe in God, and do not know who, where, and why he is.
That is why God dies. But who are you? You know I won a
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KRISHNA This is very interesting. You, of course, know who, whence, or why you are.
MAHAVIR-Yes, no-in a sort of way. But what has that to do with God?
KRISHNA-Only to show how limited is your own knowledge about your own self. Is it any wonder that you do not know who, whence, or why God is ? MAHAVIR-Wait a bit. You cannot beat me that way. My ignorance is no argument in proof of God. KRISHNA-No, indeed! Nor if I were to ask you who created you or this universe?
MAHAVIR-Nature is self-created,
It is unborn and cannot die. It can only change. It has created all forms of life, and it is all forms of life. But if it needs a creator, may I ask who created this creator? -whoever it be. Can you answer that? KRISHNA-You are a clever young man. No atheist can be converted to theism by arguments based on the existence of God!
