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JAINISM: A THEISTIC PHILOSOPHY "GOD IN JAINISM"
Universe best but there is none in the Universe who knows Him, He is called primeval ancient purusa.
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(4) Another Question asked:"
How has the world come into existence without a creator? This inferential proof establishes that God is the creator of the world. Why do you not accept this?
Muni Atmārāmaji replied:
We shall refute this argument of yours when dealing with the other aspect of God. Although it is not proved that there was only one God before the creation without any material cause, even then we proceed and ask:
Whether these souls when created by God were pure,
Whether they were endowed with merits,
Whether they were impregnated with sins,
Whether they were mixed with virtue and sin together, Whether they had more sin and less virtue and Whether they had more virtue or less sin,
If you maintain the first position, then all souls in the world ought to be pure and all the injunctions of the scriptures regarding them ought to be futile. Besides, the author of these scriptures is also proved to be unwise; for it was useless to compose these scriptures for the guidance of the souls which are already pure. No sensible man washes a clean cloth; if he does so, he is a fool. This shows that if these scriptures were put together for the guidance of the author thereof was not a Wiseman.
pure souls,
(5) Another question (with reference to SamkaraVedānta)"
93 Muni Atmārāmajī, "Chicago Prașnottara i.e. Questions & Answers on Jainism" for the Chicago Parliament of World Religions", 1918 published by Shri. Atmanand Pustak Pracharak Mandal, Roshan Mohalla, Agra, Q.No. 14, P-27
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