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there is no certainty or that we have to deal with probabilities only as some scholars have taught. Even the great Vedantist Sankaracharya has possibly erred when he says that the Jains are agnostics. All that is implied is that every assertion which is true, is true only under certain conditions of substance, space, time etc.
This is the great merit of the Jain Philosophy, that while other philosophics make absolute assertions, the Jain looks at things from all standpoints, and adapts itself like a mighty ocean in which the sectarian rivers merge themselves. What is God then ? God, in the sense of an extra cosmic personal creator, has no place in the Jain philosophy. It distinctly denies such creator, as illogical and irrelevant in the general scheme of the universe. But it lays down that there is a subtle essence underlying all substances, conscious as well as unconscious, which becomes an enternal cause of all modifications and is termed God.
The doctrine of the transmigration of soul or the reincarnation, is another grand idea of the Jain philosophy. The companion doctrine of transmigration is the doctrine of Karma. The Sanskrit of the word ' Karma' means action. “ With what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again," and "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall be also reaped," are but the corollaries of that most intricate
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