Confluence of Opposites

SR No.: 006704
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain
Publication Year: 1921
Total Pages: 422
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
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tructible, by nature. They cannot, therefore, be the reflection of any one. Unfortunately it never occured to the author of the view just quoted that there was absolutely not one particle of proof or evidence in support of the proposition that mere reflections could be endowed with consciousness, feeling, willing, memory and judgınent. The analogy of the Sun and its reflection through a magnifying lens is not to the point, because, firstly, that is not a case of true reflection inasmuci, as the Sun's reflection is in reality the concentration of the Sun's rays at a point by means of the nagnifying glass ; secondly, because the Sun itself is not comparable to a partless immutable spirit that does not radiate any kind of rays, and, thirdly, because feelings, judgment, willing and the other functions of consciousness are not alienable in any sense, as was proved in the last lecture. The notion is not supported by any kind of logical vyâpti (see lecture II) and has to be rejected.
We shall now turn to Sankhya which is unlike any other system, oriental or occidental. Volumes have been written both in friendly and hostile comment on this famous school of Hindu Metaplıysics ; but unfor. tunately not one writer ever succeeded in getting anywhere near the founder's original line of thought, You remember the enumeration of tattvas as given by Kapila, the originator of this school of thought. For facility of reference reproduce them again here.