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JAINISM: A THEISTIC PHILOSOPHY "GOD IN JAINISM"
their Hinduism moral code is unique and the ten virtues they have propagated are to be found in some form or other in all the societies of the world. Jains fundamental ideal has been peace and promotion of goodwill amongst all and attainment of supreme knowledge as the highest goal of life has not remained confined to any particular part of the country but in all over the world. The Hindu faith has best of Jainas and Buddha's ethics. "New respects for life, kindness to animals, a sense of responsibility and an endeavour after higher life have been brought home to Indian mind with renewed force.
But while the Buddhism disappeared from India in course of time, Jainism with all its schisms and divisions is a living force even now. The fact is that they kept open the doors of their church to lay representatives-a factor, which contributed much to the stability of Jainism. Moreover, it adopted a less active missionary career than Buddhism and the followers preferred more secluded sites as their chief centers of worship. It was the result of this seclusion that the Jains did not incur the terrible wrath of the Brahmaṇas and as such resisted more successfully the stress of the Brahmanical revival and the Mohammedan persecution under which Buddhism in India ultimately collapsed. It was this Brahmanic toleration, denied to the Buddhism that saved the Jains from perpetual persecution and harassment. As a result of this, Jainism, though confined to a small minority is yet a living religious force, an article of faith with a section of the people all over the country, and in the world. In spite of the fact that Brāhmaṇas have labeled Jainism as a "nāstika" religion which Western philosophers blindly translated it to be an atheistic philosophy, unscrupulously. Unfortunately, some Indian scholars, even Jaina scholars, have supported this mistake.
It is observed and opined by the Vedic Scholars that “Jaina philosophy as it seems, have been busy in contradictions rejecting Vedic thinker's theory of God in the sense of creator, sustainers and destroyer, however have not emphasized Jaina's belief that the
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