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admitted that he punishes or rewards the creatures according to their actions. This check on his supreme authority can be compared with the check of law on free will of the King.
(b) The systems believing in personal God. For instance we may quote Vashņavism. The systems of this type begin with hero worship. Vashņavism began with the worship of Krişna or Rama, who were great heroes. Gradually they along with their whole family, were divinised. In Paņchratra School Lord Krişņa, his brother, son and grandson all are interpreted as divine incarnations. His wives as divine powers. The same is the case with Rama. The scripture, in these systems, is estimated on the basis of its being instrumental to the propagation of his devotion. The soul criterian of Ethics and morality is his pleasure. Every act that pleases him is moral and that which displeases him is immoral. It is not against morality if a woman deceives her husband and covates Lord Krişņa for sexual indulgence. On the other hand it is regarded as the highest type of devotion for it's intensity of love.
(c) In the third group we may have the systems giving supreme importance to the preceptor or Guru. Generally they believe in God as impersonal being who is a great mystery and cannot be known without the help of a preacher. They attach utmost importance to his words. We may place Sikhism in this category.
The religions like Jainism and Buddhism have morality as there basis, which they divide into nonviolence, truth etc. These principles of universal ethics
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