5.1. Concept of God (Introduction)

In times when surprisingly it is the name of God that has created the most bloodshed throughout the world. Jainism stands unique in terms of the same. Where there is no creator God, what exists is Godhood and each of the living being, whether a human or any other, is capable to achieve that state through removing the innumerable layers of ignorance. Hence, ‘each liberated soul is a God or paramatma.’^[1]

Here all beings are free at their will to wish, to perform and either to move on or to step back. Each being has its own individuality.

The liberated souls are the ones who have perceived the whole universe as it is, and they have conveyed that knowledge to their disciples, which is stored in form of the agamas.

‘The possibility that religious sacred text is a sort of lawbook and that there is a divine being who capacities as a sort of judge, is altogether strange to Jainism. Jainism can be viewed as a sort of arrangement of laws, however they are viewed as regular as opposed to moral laws. Notwithstanding, nature is thought of as something that envelops more than the normal current individual will in general think.’^[2]

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

TJDKTSG. pp. 22

[2]:

JTIF. pp. 20