Concept of Divinity in Jainism

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

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Knowing that kamma bears fruits manifold Why say yė, 'In the world no kamma is'?!
Thus, owing to previous action, one becomes abusive, lair, covetous etc. The equal of inequality in the world is due to kamma.!3 Therefore, happiness and sufferings are brought about by one's own action.!4 Thus, in Buddhism, we find there is no intervention of any supreme being in the success or failure of being in the world. Suffering, according to Buddha the Supreme Divine, is the truth of a human life. He declared that every aspirant should follow the four noble truth to attain divinity.15 Fundamentals of divinity
There are four noble truth which are fundamental in attaining divinity.16 According to Tripitaka, sacred Buddhist Literature, the four noble truths are (1) Dukkha (suffering); (2) Dukkha Samudaya (cause or origin of suffering); (3) Dukkhanirodha (cessation of suffering or suppression of suffering) and (4) Dukkhanirodhagaminipatipada (the path leading to the cessation of suffering)."? First Noble Truth - Existence of Sufferings
Birth, old age, disease, death, sorrow, grief, wish, despair is misery or suffering. 18 According to Christmas Humphreys, the suffering (Dukkha) comprises pain, ill, disease - physical and mental including such minor forms of disharmony, discomfort, irritation or friction, or in a philosophic sense, the awareness of incompleteness or insufficiency.'' Birth is painful, disease is painful, death is painful, union with the unpleasant is painful, painful is depreciation from the pleasant; and any craving that is unsatisfied, that too is painful.20
All Sankhara are impermanent - All Sankhara cause suffering. 21 That is, one of the fundamental causes of sufferings lies in the impermanent nature of things or transitoriness (Kshanikavada) of their character. “Whatever transitory is pain
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