Book Title: Divinity In Jainism
Author(s): Harisatya Bhattacharya
Publisher: Devendra Printing and Publishing Co Ltd

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________________ 24 of Kant. Bhöja-rāja tries to meet this objection by saying that the Scriptures are there to give you the plenary idea about God. Kant hinted at the same draw-back--the ontological argument can not prove the existence of God. Although the principles of the Yoga philosophy were not essentially different from the Sankhya, Kapıla did not accept Patanjali's doctrine of God He says. "God is not proved." The Philosophers of the Jaina school also have refused to admit the one God of Patan ctrine of Gokapula did ntially diffithe Yoga Jali What, then, are we to understand by Divinity? To the drastic criticism of Kant, the answer of the Hegelian philosophers is that Reality is not to be supposed as contradicting what is manifest to Reason 'Real is Rational' and 'Rational is Real.' From this, it may be said that is the idea of the Perfect Being is present in our rational Soul, the real existence of the Perfect Being is to be admitted St. Augustine also said that Untruth is but the modification or limitation of Truth, the existence of absolute Truth, God, is proved by the existence of Untruth. Human knowledge is

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