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The Tension Between Religious Worship and Ontology
The ground of all being and non-being might sound divine in the sense that it's transcendent or as transcendent as anything could be. But do you think there's a pressure or tension between those two ways of thinking about it? Well, I think the nice thing about the Indian approach is that it generates the concept of the divine out of an idea of what is most fundamental to reality. So rather than saying here's a God, what is it that makes him godly, it says, what are the godly attributes? What is eternal, infinite, immutable? That is the thing, whatever it is, that is the thing that we're going to call God in a sense