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Creator and Ruler of the universe. And still, the highest being, in the Jain view, is a person and not characterless, quality-less Being like Brahma of the Vedanta.
Every living being, from the minutest to the highest embodied one, is the centre of innumerable activities. In any particular being, these activities determine the stage of its evolution. It has its biological or vital activities-those of drawiug the necessary nutritive elements, assimilating them, also of growth agd decay and feeling in a way the influences of the forces of nature. Under certain circumstances and relationships, certain influences act upon it in an uncongenial way; and still, in course of tine, it developes a wonderful adaptibility.
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