Jainism by Vividus

SR No.: 006582
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ramnik V Shah
Publisher: Ramnik V Shah Canada
Publication Year: 1990
Total Pages: 212
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 11 MB

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5. in the Universe, there exists infinite invisible life, where each life-form is an aggregation of embodied souls, whose functions such as respiration, nutrition, pleasure, pain etc., are common, and only on account of Karma subtle matter action over ages, they become each a separate embodied soul.
6. All that due to which motion, rest, subsistence and duration are possible and also earth, water, fire, air, light, heat etc., are •matter' (non-life), though fine gross matter in comparison to that of Karma which is subtle and ever in motion.
7. For any expression of a proposition, the system is always a 'maybe-ism'; never an emphatic 'is' or 'Is not' or 'both is and is not and therefore inexpressible, depending upon the point of view of and for the expression itself.
The time has now come when for extensive enquiry into these tenets, principles and postulations, JAINISM should enter the world arena of thought, either by liberalising scriptural interpretations circumscribing Jaina : Saints' undertaking of travel throughout the wide world, or their becoming proficient in world languages to publish Jaina teachings, making them available on a monumental scale hitherto never attempted before. Whatever has been done so far by scholars on the world scene is only a drop in the occean.
A Jaina scholar who was 'initiated as a Jaina Saint at the age of 20, after almost 28 years of his saintly and scholarly life in India, 'incapable of being limited by name or fame, by precedent or label,' as a humble tribute to the Glory of the New Age Awakening that has already set in, has today become the first saint to break these ancient restrictions on travel by vehicle. Shri Chitrabhanu, Gurudev Shri Chitrabhanu as he is affectionately and reverently addressed by his disciples, is now in New York, U.S.A. and has founded the 'Jaina Meditation International Centre in New York City. In his latest publication from New York City in 1977, entitled 'The Philosophy of Soul And Matter' he observes :
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