Divinity In Jainism

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

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God is the Teacher - all this is admitted by the thinkers of the Yöga school. The Liberated Soul is God, is Brahman,--this is the Vedānta position. The Nãiyāyıkas too admit that God is Omniscient. A sort of Omniscience is believed in by the Buddhistic thinkers as well.
A little reflection of the Jaina theory of God would show that the Jaina philosophy is one of the ancient systems in India. It is assuredly not post-Buddhistic in origin ; there is difficulty in considering it as contemporaneous with Buddha. It seems to us that the Jaina philosophy preached a new doctrine of God in a new way in that misty, forgotten age in which various other theories of Divinity were being propounded in ancient India |