The cosmos has been for the Jains, from the very earliest times, a gigantic theatre where souls play out their roles. The travel across the ocean of samsara, struggling, from the rebirth to anther, until the time comes when they are liberated, and finally win the spiritual perfection of the Siddhas. The Jains make no distinction between this vision of the transcendental world and the experience of life. Whatever is fated for the souls occurs in a world which has ...