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AN EPITOMÉ OF JAINISM.
tic conception of the Vedanta.
confronts us in the form—who created or why and when was evolved that moral evil which provokes the punishment of pain and
suffering? One might well contend that Pan-entheis- the Self-same Ultimate Reality who is of tion of the the nature of All-knowledge-bliss-absolute
being but One Existence without a second to stand by It; all that exists being but He ; it having been repeatedly declared that 'That Thou Art” and “That Am I tooall what is said to exist as evil or suffering, it is He that must labour under the same in the creature who is no the other than He Him. self. For just as a spider spins its web out of itself and nestles in or creeps on it, so it is He who throws Himself out into the world of names and forms, in sport, as it were, and it is He that crawls on them in the form of a child ; it is He that enjoys the pleasures of His own make in the form of a youth and it is He that totters on the road leaning on the stick in the form of the old and worn out. Indeed when thus viewed, the whole problem shifts the ground and there cannot crop up the question as to how God came to create evil and suffering for His creature. But still
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