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instant the great souls take upward rise, attain God head and have their seats in the region of Godheads. This is the highest triumph of the spiritual battle. This is the highest limit of attainment by the power of the soul from times beginningless. This is the attainment of real ideal and this is the subject matter of the exposition of Gunasthanas.
Is God Creator. ? When the soul gets beyond the fourteen Gunasthanas described above it merges into Godhead and becomes " Parr. matma " According to the views of some Indian philosophers the Paramatma, when need he become Atma, the soul. Acco. rding to this theory there is downfall for Paramatma who becomes a soul again. But according to the Jain Scriptures the soul can become Paramatma but not the opposite. Jain religion takes it to the higher regions whereas some philosophers take it to lower stages. The Jain religion has accepted that soul alone can become Parmatma whose all Karmas have been totally destroyed. When the Karmas are destroyed, all distortions, all desires all worldly hopes and wishes are all themselves destroyed as these are born of the Karmas. When God is free from any and all desires how could He come again in the world ? This question is a great stumbling block to the theory of the "Return hack.”
Some people think that this whole world has been created by God. But as we have shown before the world exists from times beginningless Therefore the question of its creation does not arise. Even then, if for argument's sake we accept that it is He who creates it and who destroys it, then the question arises why for He is undertaking all this trouble. God is not a child that He should create at one time
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