Book Title: Jainism Precepts and Practice
Author(s): Puranchand Nahar, Krishnakant Ghosh
Publisher: Caxton Publications

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________________ permutation bination of CAUSATION AND EVOLUTION. a feeling of wonder and admiration but morally prevail upon us to posit and believe, as it were, in an Intelligent Designer and Maker behind, mis it that all these and the like changes are but so many results of chances? Wherein lies the necessity and utility of the philosophy then, if it denies God but cannot reasonably account for the amazing occurances in the world of phenomena? Indeed and it is worth while to remark Universe th it a patieot perusual of the preceding and com pages on the predicaments, their character aims. and their devolopments will convince anyone in the truth of the sunmary statement we make here that speaking of the Universe as a whole or in part, it is but permutations and combinations of our four primary rudiments viz., time, space, soul and Pudgal matter. These rudiments are resolvable into the minutest of their minute parts which give a limit to fresh divisions by not admitting of any further analysis. Now a study of the nature of these ultimate ingredients reveals to us that these each and everyone are surcharg 213

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