Jambudwip Part 02

SR No.: 005568
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vardhaman Jain Pedhi
Publisher: Vardhaman Jain Pedhi
Total Pages: 190
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Book_Gujarati
File Size: 23 MB

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knowledge since Transmigration might intervene owing to one's ensues from the highest state (of wrong actions. They will all be Prajapati, the Creative Deity) down- easily, very easily understandable wards to the lowest state of inani, with practically no effort, one can mate matter' (Samkara's commentary dash through them as through a few on the Brhdaranyaka Upanishad, pages of a delightful romance. It is introduction). Samkara will elsewhere the forty-seventh theorem that will add in his works that rebirth depen begin to offer resistance." ds also on one's works actions
A few words more as below on Karmas). Transmigration in SamkaraVedanta will thus seem to be a
the transmigration philosophy of 'function to use a rich mathematical
Samkara which is a corollary to his term of knowledge and actions, F (k,
Karmic philosophy, a categorical a) where k is knowledge and a
imperative to use a well-known
phrase of Kant's, are imperative. actions. The exact law' of rebirth or
Samkara's philosophic stand is that transmigration is known only to the supreme Mathematician behind the
there can be no injustice at all in
the universe that is not righted in it universe governing it. Man, unen
now or at some other time by Him. lightened man, cannot know it. As
who is a strict Mathematician, not a Shakespeare has it in a tense context,
Historian, Geographer, Engineer, "They say the owl was a baker's
Biologist, psychologist, etc. as Jeans daughter. Lord, we know what we
in modern times will have us note.2 are, but know not what we may be
You cannot wrong-a man or woman, (after death) The most consoling
nay, even a fly or a boulder, and part of the transmigration philosophy
escape payment for it here or hereof Samkara, at any rate to those on after in the universe which is goverthe knowledge-way (Jnana Marga) to Truth, is that knowledge once acqui- 2 Cp. “We have already considered red is never lost. Once one has with disfavour the possibility of mastered. say, the first forty-six the- the universe having been planned orems of Euclid, one need not do by a biologist or an engineer, them again with effort as a reborn from the intrinsic evidence of his human being how many births SO- creation the Great Architect of ever as a fox, a lion, an ant, etc. the univers begins to appear as 1 HAMLET, IV, V, 41-43. (Globe pure mathematician-The Myster. edition.)
ious Universe (1930), p. 134,