Divinity In Jainism

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

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necessary to admit a Perfect Being who transcends all the imperfect Universals and Individuals. According to Anselm, this highest Universal, this Perfect Being the Ens RcaliSimuIntuis God God, the Perfect Being, us; because if He is non-existent, He cannot be Perfect, the want of being or existence is a want in perfection. At the dawn of the Modern Age, philosopher Discartes also revived something like this theory of a Perfect Being. He points out that man has the idea of a Perfect Being. Whence comes this idea ? Man as imperfect , he cannot produce in himself this idea of a Perfect Being. Accordingly, it is to be admitted that there is a real Perfect Being who has instilled that idea into the human mind. This Perfect Being is God. According to Discartes, God, the Perfect Being, is ; He exists ; for without existence, perfection is impossible. In modern times, Royce has propounded a theory, not dis-similar to the theory of a Perfect Being. Man iş imperfect, finite and limited,--he is groping in dark ignorance. Professor Royce contends that this very fact justifies our belief in a great Being who is in every way Perfect, Infinite and Intelligent.
It may be said that the theory of a Perfect Being was not unknown in India of forgotten