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________________ 32 JAINA THEORIES OF REALITY AND KNOWLEDGE of fact it was conceived to be the nature of Brahman alternately to become the manifest world, i. e., to transform itself into the world, and to re-absorb the world into itself. We can, therefore, safely say that pre-śankara Vedānta was not a vivartavāda with its inevitable two-plane reality--the one real and the other phenomenal—but a kind of evolutionary monism (ekatvavāda) or brahmapariņāmavāda admitting, not altogether unconsciously, the dual reality of the transforming ultimate and its transformed manifestation of the world. While Vedic-Upanişadic monism admitted of duality or difference and, therefore, characterised it (difference) in relatively positive terms, sānkara Advaitism, employing a negativistic method, perhaps under the influence of the Mādhyamika dialectic, attempted firmly to reject it. Consequently the former conceived brahman as the basic reality svagata, or the difference which exists between the parts within a single body. The following stanza from Pañcadaśī (20) illustrates these forms : vşkşasya svagato bhedaḥ patrapușpaphalādibhiḥ / vşkşāntarāt sajātiyo vijātīyaḥ sitäditaḥ // 1. Cf. dve satye samupas?tya buddhānär dharmadeśană / lokasamortisatyam ca satyaṁ ca paramārthataḥ // ye 'nayorna vijānanti vibhāgam satyayordvayoḥ / te tattvam na vijānanti gambhīram buddhaśāsane // Madhyamika Sūtra, XXIV. 8 f. See also Sukthankar's remarks in this connection, in the journal already referred to: supra p. 17, f.n. 2. 2. In framing his celebrated four-fold (catuskoţi) dialectic the Madhyamika is guided by the principle that every view (diţti) is self-contradictory and is, therefore, self-convicted. The four moments of the dialectic are sat ('is'), asat ("is not'), sadasat (both 'is' and 'is not') and na sat naiväsat (neither 'is' nor'is not'). Assertion of any of these possibilities necessarily, implies, according to him, its opposite counterpart and, thereby Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org
SR No.001608
Book TitleJaina Theories of Reality and Knowledge
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorY J Padmarajiah
PublisherJain Sahitya Vikas Mandal
Publication Year1963
Total Pages444
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationBook_English, Philosophy, Epistemology, & Anekantvad
File Size23 MB
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