Divinity In Jainism

Author(s): Harisatya Bhattacharya
Publisher: Devendra Printing and Publishing Co Ltd

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(series of existences), getting various bodies and experiencing the fruits of its own actions Atoms are unconscious , how can a body be formed without the intervention of a conscious God?..Well, the Jaina answer to this difficulty is as follows ---Karına is Pudgala or material in nature , owing to Raga or spirit of attachment and Dvēsha or spirit of repulsion, Karma-matter naturally comes or is drawn into the Soul and forms its bodily environment
Accordingly, the Jaina philosophy does not admit the existence of any Creator of the world and it refuses to maintain that God is such a creator
What, then, are we to understand by Divinity?
There ia a class of thinkers in the west who know that if the Soul and the Creator be separated, God becomes finite and hence they do not admit the reality or separate existence of any being other than God The philosophers are well known as the Panthersts. Principles of Pantheism are traceable in the systems of the ancient Greek thinker, Parmenides and the Eleatics. Pantheism passed through the currents of the Platonic and the Aristotelian thoughts and became explicat in