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at is that God is not the creator of the world, He is entitled to our reverence only on the ground of his being omniscient. Such a theory cannot but dispel the innumerable superstitions that cling to any other notion of God. The Jain God is the wise man's God. But the mass of mankind still likes to lean upon some imaginary entity that would be ready to offer its rescuing hand to any one suffering from any cause. Such an entity must be endowed with capacity to do and undo any-thing that suits the devotee. Hence the conception of Jainism is always open to misunderstanding and as such calls for a few remarks in this place.
There may be difficulties in the way of belief in an uncreated universe; but those in the way of the dogma of creation, are greater and more insuperable difficulties. Hinduism or Vedism, the contemporary opponent of Jainiism in this respect, is not a pure type of the creation-theory. Hence the antagonism of the
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