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idea of God
TO GOD. who can curve out paths for ourselves here and herein-after both for enjoyment of pleasures and emancipation of our souls by our own will and exertion.
Here-in-before we have fairly discussed what sort of God we do not believe in ; we have seen there what it is not. We shall see' now what He is to us as taught by the Jain Teachers.
According to the Jain philosophy the universe is not a fortuitous concourse of dead, The Jain dull matter (pudgal) only ; for that would head. mean crude materialism which Jainism does not allow. The Victors say that the series of changes as presented by the organic and inorganic worlds, show, as has been recently demonstrated by Dr. J. C. Bose, that in addition to the dead dull pudgal-matter, there is something superphysical both in the living and in the so-called non-living. When this something superphysical departs from the constitution of the living and the so-called non-living, we say it is dead by which we mean that it does not respond. Experiments have shown that like plants and animals, a piece of metal responds in a like manner,
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