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pure vision, infinite power of action, infinite fivefold possessions, forgiveness, uncovetousness, uprightness, pridelessness, humility, truth, self-control, selflessness, celebacy, compassion, benevolence, absence of hatred and passions. Equality of disposition towards friend and foe, gold and stone, woman and straw, abstinence from flesh-food and wine and other uneatable things, immovability. He is the ocean of compassion. He is powerful, valiant, sober, courageous, fearless, devoid of evil-speaking, unegoistic, desirous to save even those who do him ill. This is the description of the form of the Jains' God with body. When the body is discarded, he attains the position of a Siddha who dwells in his own eternal and infinite bliss. The God of the Jains has nothing to do with the creation of the world, or the task of taking incarnations, or the task of punishing or rewarding people according to their merits or demerits or sending them to heaven or hell or showing pride in his
