Ethnicity and Religious Heritage

Author(s): T U Mehta
Publisher: T U Mehta

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Jainism - A Goddess Creativity
discovery of an all powerful and all embracing Divine Soul to whose ordinance and will all the objects of universe are subject and who would be the ultimate and real cause of all things tangible and intangible experienced in life. Two well-known approaches of thinkers are: ontological and cosmo-logical. Cntology is mataphysics concerned with essence of things or being in the abstract. Cosmological approach accepts the law of causality or the principal of "sufficient reason" . The ontological approach assumes that GOD must be real as there is some force beyond our minds and ideas. He is "That than which nothing greater can be conceived" (St. Anslem). The cosmological approach however, does not start with any such assumption but starts with wordly objects and states that every existing thing or feature which we encounter in this universe must have a cause or reason to explain why it is so and must have something else which has brought it into existence. This something else is itself an effect or result of some prior cause. If, say the cosmologists, you go on tracing this link of effect and its cause, you must ultimately concuide that there is one final