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The Principles of Motion and Rest
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activity. A calm state of Rest is always extolled and insisted on and as such, virtue may be said to be more in Adharma than in Dharma.
The fact is that the conceptions of Dharma and Adharma as non-psychical principles of Motion and Rest are peculiar to Jaina philosophy and it is futile to attempt to find out a connection between their metaphysical and ordinary ethical senses.
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