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CHAPTER XVI.
GOD. Jainism makes no room for an extra-mundane GodLaplace and Nepoleon-The 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 "Nirvan" is the idea of the God-head of the Jains.
In the last chapter on the compound Evolution and the Law of Universal Causation, it has been made clear as to how from the standpoint of phenomenal Naya the universe is ever sity of an changing and transitory, and how from the stand-point of Noumenal Naya according to which the universe is taken as one undivided whole of inter-related reals, it is self-existent and permanent. We have also seen that because it is self-existent and permanent, therefore, it is not an effect of some anterior cause working from behind the universe ; and further that the diversities and differences in the world of phenomena and forms owe their existences to the operation of
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