#creator

⇄ The Jains were right: a beginningless universe has no need of a creator

I grew up Jain in Ahmedabad and run the family pharmacy. Jain cosmology says the universe (loka) is uncreated and eternal. Time turns in great cycles of ascending and descending half-cycles, the utsarpiṇī and avasarpiṇī, and ages of improvement and decline repeat…