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for her highest achievements in subtle and gross fields of human life no doubt, but ! am unlimitedly proud to mention here that the most dominant characteristics among them are the three great principles, Ahimsa. Anekant and Aparigraha which are the very components of the human heart and the crowning beauty of Jainism. Apart from these India is nothing and Indian mind is a chimera !
Jainism offers us an empirical classification of the things in the world and so argues for a plurality of spirits. Leibnitz, the great English philosopher, thought that the world was full of the monads, so the Jain looked upon the universe as filled with vivas. The metaphysies of Jainas has affinities with Bergson's Creative Evolution and Leibnitz's Monadism.
This rich and fertile land of Jainism which created, cultivated and nourished Pujyapada's mind. Pujyapada was the greatest figure among the Jain Acharayas who contributed to and put an enduring stamp on Jain philosophy
