Book Title: Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss
Author(s): Anantprasad Jain
Publisher: Tirthakar Mahavir Smruti Kendra Samiti Lakhnou UP
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of exclusiveness or the separatist tendency has been most harmful--doing the greatest harm to the world, as well as an immense harm to the country itself which thinks and acts with this notion and belief. Every unit, with life in this universe, has its effective role to play, in unison, for the common good, forming a part, however insignificant it may be, of the vast sum total effect in the aggregate. Everyone is surrounded by a full whole world. No one is nor can be absolute and exclusive. Every being is an active and an effective member of the vast society, with some use, meaning and purpose for its existence in the community of all living beings of the world and the whole universe at large.
Every thing is self existent and no body can create anything nor destroy anything, except changing the form, shape and birth or rebirth etc. All natural changes also are automatic and perpetual; no one can stop it. If any body says that God creates, he denies the very existence of God. If there is any God, He can only be all knowing, pure consciousness, in its essence, and quite unconcerned and neutral to all worldly affairs. Pure SoulAtman, as defined in Jain scriptures, after liberation, becomes God and has got all the