Introduction to Jainsim

Author(s): Dewan Bahadur A B Lathe
Publisher: Jain Mitra Mandal

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JAINISM
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Such instances may be multiplied manifold, but it will take long time.
These references further support our point. PANINI'S autho. fity may be added to this. He defines Nastikas as tllosc who deny the existence of post-mundanc worlds.* The Jains can of course stand on this ground in trying 10 rchut thc charge. Thcy acccpt sixteen Swargas or hicavens, seven holls, and this world through which a soul wanders according to its Karmas.
Somc, however, basc thcir charge upon thic non-crcation theory of Jainism. Jainism holds that God is thc crcator of Non-creation tlic universe only froni certain points of vicw, thicory
not, absolutely, in so far as lic explained to the world thic truc good of the soul, pointed out to all the means of livelihood, and inculcated the truth of uic law of farmas, God is called the maker of thc universe. But Jainism dcnics that God is the source of all human actions, good and bad; for, this is opposed to the very nature of God. To say that a thics commits thcst bccausc he was so moved by Gods will, and yet God punished him for the thicft, is clearly inconsistent. Tlierc can be no satisfactory solution of the difficulty here arising. Hence it is that great philosoplices have denied crcation by God, For examplc scc the passage quoted from the Bhagavad Gita, on page 53. Here te will of God being the source of any
The usual sending of this Shloka substitutes 77 for fory in 1 & 2. Nic the reading hcic adopied is rct within a Jain sorli, come centuries old, the Mokslumarpapraiasha. Besides, it gives it belier meaning to the sloka.
सून प्रस्ति नास्ति दिE मतिः ।। Tip: afia sta afata: SET: 1
TU T TAT : 317r.: रंयमस्ति रति मनियमः ६दि ।