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The Jainas' concept of expressing this revelation is both interesting and unique. Tirthankaras in their Samosarans only sermonies in what Jainas call 'Divya-dhvani'. Like the planes of consciousness, there are other planes, one over the other yet always interpenetrating. Beyond the plane from which innumerable forms and shapes, sizes and structures appear, there is a plane of mind from which thoughts and ideas are crystalized, and beyond that there is a plane of sound from which expressions reverberate. If and when one is able to reach this plane, he is able to catch this sound in purity and perfection, this is 'Divya-dhvani' and when he brings it down to the level of the earth-plane, it translates itself into the language of the beings who have gathered to hear him.
Jainism believes in the existence of God. It is however neither theism nor atheism as understood in the West. It believes in God but not as the person who has created this universe and all its myriad forms. The famous evolutionist of today, Erich Jantch has said that God is not the creator but the mind of the universe. He is neither a male nor a female; nor manifest in any personal form. He represents nothing less than the 'self-organising dynamics of the entire Cosmos'. God-lovers need not fight shy of this statement. This is not the denial of the existence of God. It is only an affirmation of God in a different way.
There is still another way. "GOD is the name given to everything that surpasses him, everything he can't know but submit to. It surpasses all possible understanding and dominates him. And so, the Religions have given it a name, man has called it 'GOD'.
The Mother Sri Aurobindo Ashram. This is what Jainism has been saying since milleniums, In Jainism, God is Consciousness, pure and endowed with infinite perception, knowledge. power and bliss whom none can pollute or divide: Consciousness with vibrations of neither pole in absolute harmoniousness, peacefulness and equalness.. It is everything plus mind plus even more, even the unmanifest. This is Para-brahman, beyond 'Brahman' the Manifest. This is 'Siddha.' This is what at its sweet will could activate Itself:
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