Book Title: Religion and Philosophy of the Jainas
Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi
Publisher: Jain International Ahmedabad

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________________ GOD 87 there is not any idea of selfishness; it is like practising vinue for the sake of virtue and without any other motive, God to us would mean to have attained the perfect and liberated state. We pay homage to the perfect for the sake of perfection, and not for any reward. One of the prayer of the Jaina is “I worship with power all consciousness which becomes the leader for us on the path of salvation; which has broken to pieces the mountain of physical forces or Karma ; which has acquired omniscience." I worship it because I wish to become that power. God, in the sense of an extra-cosmic personal creator, has no place in the Jaina philosophy. It distinctly denies such creator, as illogical and irrelevant in the general scheme of the universe. But it lays down that there is a subtle essence underlying all substances, conscious as well as unconscious, which becomes an eternal cause of all modifications and is termed God. (This is another view.] Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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