Ethnicity and Religious Heritage

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

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Indian Ethnicity ari Religious Heritage
attachments, envy and arrogance he is not able to see the path of freedom. If he is found fattered by chains, these chains are of his own forging, and by proper efforts, only he can rend them.
The Indian philosophical system of "Nyāya"is very much similar to the thinking of Western ontological philosophers on this point. Jain reply to Nyāya philosophers is that if God, as an outside and over powering force, is taken as the creator and sustainer of the universe on the analogy of the effects having intelligent human causes, then even God, like human beings, must be presumed to be imperfect having all human desires of creation, fun and frolic. Moreover, many questions such as who created God and why God created universe and why God should take trouble of dispensing justice etc. remain unaswered.
Albert Einstein, the greatest physicist of our age rightly observes with reference to the idea of the exisface of an omnipotent just and omni cient personal as under :
"If this Being is omnipotent, then every