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devotional tendency in man. Vishou preserves and develops the buddhi created by Brahma and does not preserve any other absurdities. Shiva is primarily the cause of Brahma's creation by his destroying the worldly desires, and, lastly, he is the cause of tinal liberation by annihilating the good effects of religious devotion and practice. Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva....exhaust the religious requirements for the final emancipation of man."
Thus, the real God for the soul is its own life or being, that is the soul-substance itself, which is the material 'cause (upadanı karana) of the subsequent Godhood, to be evolved out under instructions from one who has already attained to Godhood, namely, a Tir. thamkara, the outer Guide and God. This amounts to saying that there is only one real. God for each soul-its own Self-which is similar in nature to but not identical with any other soul whether Perfected, i. e., a Saved One, or not. To this God it is enjoined to cling with all its might. This is the ground on which is founded the doctrine of absolute unity of God, and man is warned against associating any other with this God. If you reflect on this, you will see that there is no giver of Godhood, Immortality, Bliss and other altributes of Persection outside the soul itself; for these are inherent in the soul's own nature and cannot be had from any one else. Hence, the emphasis on the exclusive unity of the real God. As taught in the Qur'an (chapter xxii), whoever associates another with this God is like that
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