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magnificent and inipressive thing that a human being should rise to great heights mentally and spiritually and should then seek to raise others up, rather than that he should be the mouthpiece of a divine or superior power. Some of the founders of religions were astonishing individials, but all their glory vanishes in my eyes when I cease to think of them as human beings. What impresses me and gives me hope is the growth of :nind and spirit of man, and not his being used as an agent to convey a message.” 6
The theory that there is one personal God with virtues and powers for ill, controlling all the activities of the universe, cannot produce desi. rable moral qualities in the heart of the worshipper. : Aldous Huxley rightly maintains that "belief in a personal moral God had led only too frequently to theoretical dogmatism and practical intolerance and to the commission in the name of the divinely moral person of every kind of iniquity?.
The basic feature of the Jain conception of God is that worship is absolutely impersonal
6 The Discovery of India. 7 Ends and Means, p. 301.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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