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rything changes in the universe as manifested. The only permanent thing there is the 'change' itself.
All religions are based on the spiritual experiences of very highly evolved consicent human beings in their state of total forgetfulness of the universe as manifested and brought down to a level comprehensible to humanity. God to them is the essential inexpressible experience. They have lived God and in that only they have seen him in his multi-dimensional form. It is only when an attempt is made to express the experience in the dimensions known to humans so far that the expression has to be confined either to symbols, or words, and that, too, of the level which would be comprehensible to the people whose minds are built to understand that way of speaking, or seeing. Thus, the description of the experience which is not by itself an experience, makes itself non-universal, to say, relevant only to a few hearers, or listeners, out of the whole of the universe. Thus, all religions are at their best "wordframes" capable to be accepted and followed in totality only by those whose minds are built on the same wave-lengths. In these "wordframes", however, there is an essence which is similar. The frames are mere spectra.
Those who have had these experiences have translated it by saying, in effect, that this world is the world of equilibrium; it was and it is the "undivided simultaenity of all contraries". As soon as there is any sort of divergence - not even divergence any sort of difference, that is the beginning of division, and everything which is not that state of equilibrium could not be eternal. It is only that state which not only contains, but also expresses eternity.
In Jainism, God is Absolute. He is Pure Consciousness, unpolluted sentient energy of infinite dimensions, both manifest and unmanifest, plus more, without positive or negative poles. Nothing vibrates Him. He cannot be won over into anything as desired by humans. As The mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram has said, "He is lived, but cannot be fully defined. He is the Absolute of perfection and enternal source of all that exists of which everyone and everything becomes progressively
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