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secrets of this automation. Religion, according to Jainism does not consist of any ritual but is only an attempt to adjust your self properly in the mechanism of this automation. As Shri S. Radhakrishnan puts it, "the Jain view is that the whole universe of being, of mental and material factors has existed from all eternity, undergoing an infinite number of revolutions produced by the powers of nature without the intervention of any external deity."
The concept of the absolute master, creater and sustainer of the Universe is born out of human experience that everything tangible and intangible is the result of causation and creativity and therefore there must be some ultimate cause or a creator from whom everything else has resulted. This line of reasoning has led the human mind to various types of philosophical speculations, and approaches. It may not be some co-ordiating force which is transcedning the material world and human understanding. But Belief in this transcedental coordinating emergy has led mataphysics to the
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