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THE IDEA OF GOD IN JAINISM
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The idea of infinite power with reference to a Perfect Soul can be easily grasped if we ponder on the nature of Life of which He is the fullest expression. Let the mind dwell on the idea of continuity, and then associate it with Life, that is, continuity of living, without a break and without a pause. Life just perpetually goes on living. Death is unknown to Life, in reality. Indeed, how can it be otherwise when Life does not, cannot, halt even for a moment in its continuous living. Death only affects the intellectual function and the degree of consciousness or conscious intensity. But Life simply goes on living, continuously, ceaselessly, without a gap, without a stop. This, in itself, is inexhaustible, that is, infinite power.
The Perfect Soul, apart from this, is the destroyer of the greatest and the most powerful foe of living beings, namely Karma, to which every one else is subject. No calamity, no misfortune, can approach the Holy One ; Time is powerless to mark the lines of age on His features ; Death itself is scared of Him-is no more for Him !
The Deified Soul is the true Hero, the Conqueror ; no one can dislodge Him from His Status and the Supreme Seat ; none can harm Him in the least, in any way. Those who seek His protection become like Him. He shall continue to be for ever and for ever, with all His Glory ever remaining undiminished, His Power as unyaning after a hundreci million years as to-day. He is Life itself that is Divine, and that cannot be stopped in any way from living on, from continuing to live ! What men learn by enormous labour, and even then most imperfectly, He perceives and knows at a glance. He sees and knows all every moment of Time, by His own immeasurable awesome Power. Because of all this He is rightly adjudged to be possessed lof infinite inexhaustible Power,
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