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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Approach to Reality
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conception of anirvacaniya, the Buddha's avyaksta and Nāgārjuna's conception of the ultimate as being catuṣkoţivinirmukta came under this stage. iv) The last phase in the dialectical evolution of the idea of the inexpressible is expressed in the avaktavya of the Syadvāda. It is a relativistic (sāpekşa) view and not the absolute view as presented in anirvacanīya. The Jaina states that sat and asat, in these combinations, are inevitable and distinctive feature of our objective experience, sa Again the avak tavya may show the inability to embody, within one symbol, the two fundamental aspects of reality with equal prominence. But this limitation is itself a necessary step in the dialectual movement of Syādvāda.
K. C. Bhattacharya states ..... If the inexpressible is objective as given, it cannot be said to be not a particular position nor to be non-existent. At the same time it is not the definite distinction of position and existence. It is a category by itself.88
5. The fifth predication is formulated as syad asti avaktavyam. From the point of view of its own contexts (dravya, rūpa, kāla and kşetra) a thing is and is indescribable. It asserts the co-presence of the two attributes, existence and inexpressibility. Both are real and necessary attributes. Existence relates to an object in the context of substance in respect of its internal determinations. Inexpressibility is an attribute which relates substance, in relation of identity and distinction, to its changing modes.
6. The sixth proposition expresses the negative aspect together with inexpressibility. It is syad nāsti avaktavyam. In the context, it is not and is indescribable. In relation to the para-dravya, para-rūpa, para-kşetra and para-kala it is not : it is indescribable.
32. Padmarajiah (Y. J.): The Jaina Theory of Reality and Knowledge,
348-55. 33. Bhattacharya (K. C.): The Jaina Theory of Anekantavāda, p. 14.