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Eternal loka, jīva, no creator
Beginningless universe. Souls bound by karma. Gods exist and do not create. Liberation ends rebirth.
Meru in Jain cosmology does not make this Hinduism. No-creator is load-bearing. Do not import a God to complete the diagram.
No creator. Eternal loka. Jīva bound by karma moves through births, including god-births, until liberation.
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Uncreated loka
The universe is not made and not destroyed.
- 02
Heavens, middle, hells
One cosmos. Meru sits in traditional middle-world maps.
- 03
Jīvas, including gods
Gods are souls in a high birth. They are not authors of the world.
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Embodied jīva
The human slot is a soul under karma.
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Liberation
Rebirth stops. The two great canons do not match book for book.
- Time
- Ascending and descending eras. No final destruction.
- Agents
- Jīvas. The Jinas are teachers, not creators.
- Human slot
- A soul that can exhaust karma. The aim is release, not a better rebirth as the goal.
- Break
- Karma. There is no devil to blame and no creator to appeal to as maker.