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of all the actions during life, and so if we get a wrong ideal men, then ic trying to become so we lead wrong lives. The ideal man should be called the Deity (Deva]. The Deity [Deva] is a person living as a human being in the midst of his brothers and sisters, not his children. There are millions of Devas ( The tirthankara is the Master) who were such men, being now in the liberated state ( and once liberated the Deity is never again embodied, the soul after reaching perfection never again becomes imperfect, and an embodied state is an imperfect one.)
Now, what is the difference between the Deva or Arbat as understood in this system of philosophy and the Deity as understood in other systems, Krishna, Budiha, Christ, etc, etc. ?
If you find the following 18 characteristics in him, then he is a Deva. Try to test all the so-called Deities as to whether they have these 18 characteristics, aud then if any is found wanting reject the Deities so-called: that is the Jain teaching. If any one of the following 18 characteristics is missing then he is not a Deva:
1. The antaraya karmas must all have disappeared in him, because so long as there is any aptaraya karma in a person, that shows that, that person may be willing to do a right thing and still is not able to do it, it shows that in bis nature
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