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The chief feature of Jainism is ahimsa respect for all and abstention from injuring everything that has life. )
The Jainas repudiate the theory of the creation of the world out of nothing or as a series of accidents. According to them, there can neither be destruction of things that do exist nor there be creation of things out of nothing. So, according to this view, there is no God necessary for creation or destruction.
Jainism looks upon God, Nature, and Soul, as aspects of the same. According to Jaina ethics there is no God; except the soul in its ideal integrity.
Jaina Philosophy tells us that the life of agood in heaven is one of the forms that a soul might assume by the accumulation of punya (merit). According to them, gods are only embodied souls like men and animals different from them in degree but not in kind.
The liberated souls are above gods. They are never born again, and they have no connection with the world. Meditation or adoration of the Jenas sanctifies the soul. Theory of Soul: Pluralita os spirits
According to the Jaina philosophy, the universe is filled with jivas. Jiva means whatever is living and not whatever is meachanical. So, it correspond to the life-elemant of Berogson. And since it is subjects of esperience it also corresponds to the monad of Leibniz.
Jainism does nohtseem to have made exact distinctions between jiva and Atman, a gira and matter. A jiva is a particular kind of existent being. The liberrted jiva freed from matter, is called the Ātmax. Ātman means pure consciousness untinted by matter. It excludes all space and externality. It is the jiva purified and raised to the highest spiritual status, which is mere formless consciousness,
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