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JAINISM: A THEISTIC PHILOSOPHY “GOD IN JAINISM”
causes above-mentioned exist no blossom will come forth regularly unless the feature of continuity is combined with the force of the seed. The previous action has also a great deal to do, for if there no previous actions to reckon with, the present form in which things are produced would not be determined. If there were no man to sow a seed or the seed itself by its gravity were not to fall on the ground, it would never put forth a blossom. Therefore there are five causes in growth of a seed and these are: (1) Time, such as rainy season (2) Nature (3) Continuity (4) Previous action and (5) effort.
Except these five causes, no other cause, such as God, is proved in regards to the growth of a seed. Similar is the case in regards to birth of a child.
The pregnancy would effect in its proper time The womb must have the power to hold an embryo The continuity of the pregnancy without any disturbance The previous action, which would induce birth as a man The effort of parents in the direction of producing a child
All the things that are seen in this world are produced by the agency of these five causes.
The view that the earth being in the form of an effect is bound to be entirely dissolved someday, just as a pot is not correct, because the earth has not exactly the same effect as a pot. A pot never involves forces to growth but earth involves such forces, countless bodies are daily produced and destroyed. By the combination and destruction of these countless bodies, the earth remains the same. The earth is therefore bound to eternally exist and phenomena of life seen on it will never disappear. It will exist everlastingly and the God is not its creator.
There are simple many minded men who on seeing men, animal, earth, air, vegetables, the sun and the moon and the
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