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and if he were bound by desires of any kind, he would then be under bondage and there fore defficient in power.' We, who have examined their various doctrines, especially the doctrine of Karman with its corollary the law of cause and effect, can clearly see that in the Jain and Buddhist philosophy, there is no room for a personal God, for an estra cosmic creator. With them no one is above this law of cause and effect, even gods have to submit themselves to it. "The only sense in which these two sects may not be called atheistical is their belief in perfect liberated souls; Jinas and Buddhas. But here also they differ from the ordinary conception of God. Their Jinas and Buddhas are liberated souls, implying a former state of bondage, while God is free from and for ever. Moreover the liberated souls may be more than one, an idea incompatible with monotheism, We find that the Jains and the Buddhists especially those of the
North, have tried to engraft on their sysShree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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