Concept of Divinity in Jainism

Author(s): P Ajay Kothari
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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unawarded. Such is my rebuke to those recluse and Brahmins who thus teach, who hold such view”.!
In the Bhuridatta Jataka the Bodhisatta expresses his views about a creator, God :
“He who has eyes can see the sickening sight; Why does not Brahma set his creatures right? If his wide power no limits can restrain, Why is his mind so rarely spread to bless?” “Why are his creatures all condemned to pain? Why does he got to all give happiness?” “Why do fraud, lies and ignorance prevail? Why triumphs falsehood, truth and justice fail?” “I count your Brahma one th’un just among, Who made a world in which do shelter wrong.”
While refuting the theory that everything is the creation of the Supreme Being, the Bodhisatta remarks :
“If there exists some Lord all powerful to fulfil In every creature bliss or woe, action good or ill, That Lord is stained with sin. Man does but work his will”. "Thus, No god, no Brahma can be found Creator of Samsara's round; Empty phenomena roll on, Subject to cause and condition.” 4
There is no one almighty creator God whom Buddhist should consider as a saviour, sustainer or destroyer of the universe. Buddhism is purely man centred, humanistic religion. Lord Buddha never taught that there is any God, who created this universe. According to him, the entire-universe exists out of the laws
THE CONCEPT OF DIVINITY IN JAINISM