Divinity In Jainism

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

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multiplicity of the Souls, of their Bondage and of their capacity to attain Salvation is enough and all that is reasonable and necessary, There is no reason, nor any necessity for postulating a "one and Second-less” Brahman.
It is thus that according to the Jainas there is no Brahman, the only Reality, "one and the Second-less " and God is not Brahman.
What, then, are we to understand by Divinity ?
The Christians of Europe in the Middle Age often understood by God, the Perfect Being, the Father of the universe. The argument of the Perfectionists is known as the Ontological Argument St Augustine asked How can Man-finite, un-wise, deluded as he is,--conceive Truth? It is because there is at the back of the universe a Perfect realised Ideal and Standard of Truth,-a Perfect Being that It is possible for Man to conceive Truth. This Perfect Being, according to St. Augustine, is God. Anselm argued that there are grades or Strata (so to say) of Reality. The Universals are higher and truer Realities than the Individuals. There are higher and higher grades among the Universals, again. Hence it is,