Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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The eighth reality of the system of Kanada is manas, the cause of succession in sensation and thought. It is, however, acknowledged to be not a reality by itself, but only a material organ, the instrument of experience (The Hindu Realism, p. 93). Its classification under a separate head, as a reality, is illogical under the circumstances.
THE SIDDHANTA.
All this suffices to show that the Vaisheshika system is neither scientific nor logical in its analysis.
To proceed with our subject, the reduction of the world-process to the six primary or ultimate substances brings the old conflict between Advaita and Dualism once more to the front. Let us see what Jainism has to say on the point, and how it meets the arguments of its adversaries, in its turn.
Notwithstanding that its own doctrine implies a multiplicity of souls, Jainism finds fault, to begin with, with the systems which preach absolute 'Dualism' and maintain that the individuals have nothing in common between them. It points out that, while the individuals are independent in respect of their individuality, they possess many qualities in common with one another, which goes to indicate that they have a common nature. This seems, at first sight, to lead to the tenet of Vedanta, but when the argument advanced against that system itself is taken into consideration a very different result is reached. The argument proceeds in the following manner :
"The self cannot create the self. That means that Adwaitism cannot explain, without some duality to help, how the all-in-all gave rise to itself, or to the other-than-itself. Again, has the Adwaita doctrine any evidence to prove its truth? It may have it, or it may 62