Jaina View of Life

SR No.: 001622
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T G Kalghatgi
Publisher: Jain Sanskruti Samrakshak Sangh Solapur
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 260
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, & Discourse
File Size: 14 MB

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Jaina view of Life
position. The commentary on the Tattvārthasutra of Umāsvāti gives an exhaustive description of the problem. Later, a systematic exposition of the doctrine was given by Jaina scholars like Samantabhadra, Siddhasena Divākara, Mallavādi, Pūjyapāda, Akalarka, Vidyānandi and others.
The Anekanta view does imply the principles of reciprocity and interaction among the reals of the universe, as given by Kant, although this principle is more implied than expressly stated in Jainism.
In Kantianism as in Jainism, the principle of reciprocity goes beyond the 'coexistance or the inter-relatedness of the substances and explains the dynamical community' among them." But the Jaina is a thorough-going realist. Anekāntavāda is a theory of reality which asserts the manifoldness and complexity of the real. In apprehending the complexity of the universe, it has crystallised itself into the two-fold dialectic of Nayavāda and Syādvāda; and they are complementary processes forming a normal and inevitable development of the relativistic presupposition of the Jaina metaphysics. I*
III. Anekānta emphasizes that the truth is many-sided. Reality can be looked at from various angles. Two doctrines result from the Anekāntavāda : i) Nayavāda and ii) Syadvāda. Nayavāda is the analytic method investigating a particular stand-point of factual situation. Syādvāda is primarily synthetic designed to harmonise the different view-points arrived at by Nayavāda. Nayavāda is primarily conceptual' and the Syadvada is synthetic and mainly verbal," although this sometimes maintained that conceptual is also verbal and the verbal method is so much changed with epistemological
12. Padmarajiah (Y. J.): Jaina Theories of Reality and Knowledge,
p. 286. 13. Ibid, p. 303. 14. Upadhye (A. N.): Pravacanasāra of Kundak undācărya, ed. (Bombay)
1935. Introduction.