Divinity In Jainism

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

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as real Theate matters this per the things of
is real The multiplicity and the variety of phenomena are matters of direct perception , why should we reject this perception? If Brahman is a reality, why should the things of the universe which appear to be as much real as the Brahman, be unreal ? Like the occidental critics of the pantheistic theory, the thinkers of the Jaina school point out that if the multiplicity of the Souls be denied, their Emancipation or, Muktı becomes impossible, If all the Souls are but identical, not only should all the Souls be happy at the happiness of one Soul and grieved, at its grief but all the Souls should attain Salvation at the Salvation of one Soul and Salvation of all the Souls should be impossible as long as there remains any one Soul, un-emancipated The Jainas contend that if the Advaita philosophy be true, then Bondage, Salvation, Merit, Sin-all these are mere verbiage. For, if the Individual Soul is Brahman, who has the Bondage, who, again gets Salvation and who practises Good or Bad ?
The philosophers of the Advaita school urge, however, that although there is no real difference between Soul and Soul, one Soul is different from another, practically speaking , so that at the Salvation of one Soul, the rest