Encyclopaedia Of Jainism

Author(s): P C Nahar, K C Ghosh
Publisher: Satguru Publications

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CHAPTER XVI. God.
Jainism makes no room for an extramundane God.-Laplace and NepoleanThe Idea is not singular in India-Yet the Jains are not dependant on any. All-mighty Ruler standing in the without-Dr. Bose and the Super-physical Power-Spencer and Spinoza-"Tertium Quid"-nature of the Power-The Coalescence these powers in different beings on the attainment of "Nirvân" is the idea of the God-head of the Jains.
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257-265.
CHAPTER XVII. Soul.
Souls and the God-head -Materialistic conception of Soul-A bye-product of matter -Eastern and Western materialism compared- Chârvak and Haekend Girardian, the Socialist-Cosmological and Moral difficulties involved in Materialism Admissions by Huxley, Spencer and Darwin -The Jain conception of Spirit and Matter -Their Correlativity -Pradeshas-Parts or Soul-Units-Conscious effulgence form the spiritual essence of the Soul-Soul's constitu tional freedom-Its Transmigration through the grades of Sansar and Emancipation.
366-280.