Hegel was a good German philosopher and in his philosophy, he has given a concept:
the Absolute Truth, the Prime Cause of everything, must have two qualifications. What are they? It must be by itself and for itself.
Please try to pay attention. ‘By itself’ means that He is His own cause—nothing else created Him. If anything has created Him, that creator will have the primary importance. Therefore, to be the Absolute He must be anadi, eternally existing and not created by anything. The Absolute must have this qualification.
The next qualification is that the Absolute Truth is ‘for itself’. He exists for His own satisfaction, not to satisfy any other. If His existence was for the purpose of satisfying any other entity, that would make Him secondary and He would not hold the prime position.
Therefore, the Absolute must have these two qualifications: He is His own cause, and He exists only to satisfy Himself, to fulfill His own purpose. The Absolute is by itself and for itself. If even a blade of grass moves, it moves to fulfill the purpose of the Absolute. Everything—every incident, and whatever happens—must have to be for His satisfaction. So the real current is His lila, His Pastimes. We are guided by separate interest: family interest, country interest, social interest or humanitarianism, etc., but in the infinite consideration it is all only a tiny part, and we are all engaged in acting for such separate interest. There is a clash between innumerable separate interests and so there is trouble. But we must leave all our so-called special interests, come out from misunderstanding, and try to attain the function of a unit activity for the cause of the whole.
Two Essential Qualifications of Absolute
By: Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaja
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