Silent Soil

Author(s): Vidyasagar Acharya
Publisher: Bhagwan Rishabhdev Granthmala

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that God cannot descend in the world now. Can the ghee after getting out of the milk returns ever to the form of milk?
The other alternative of taking the God in bodily state is also not proper, because the body is a bondage in itself, it is the basis of all the bondages. If the body is, the samsara (world) is. What is there in the samsara except misery? Therefore, Godhood cannot accept, bear any miserable bondage. That way, the achievement of Godhood is not possible in worldly state. Yes, the worldly one can become God on the basis of sadhana breaking the worldly bonds.
This too cannot be said that when the beautiful cities can be created by the Vidyadharas and gods on the strength of Vidyas (goddesses) and Vikriyas (divine powers), then what is the objection in the creation of the world by the embodied God? Because the cities etc., made by devas (gods) is for the time being, not for the three times (past, present and future). These too are limited, not all pervading, pervading the whole universe. And here is not the purpose of benevolence but a satisfaction of the mind thirsty of sensual pleasures. The truth is that Vidyas, Vikriyas work according to the rise of auspicious karmas earned earlier, not otherwise.
In Jain philosophy the bodily God, destroyer of karma mountains, knower of universal truths and leader of the path of liberation is embodied. As he does good to the worldly Jivas by religious
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