Jainism and World Problems

SR No.: 006708
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1934
Total Pages: 240
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 10 MB

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can find a reason for a contrary misconception being incorporated in the Scriptures to popularise oneself or one's creed by 'watering' it down, but not one that will hold water in support of the author's view. His argument is purely negative, and consists in a superficial and fanciful analysis of the Jaina notion of the diverse kinds of sanghanans. Even here it seems to me that the author deliberately avoids natural hypotheses. In the third kala this world of ours was a bhogabumi and women were born with vajra vrishabha narach sanghanana. In the fourth kala the world became changed into a karma-bhumi, and women were no longer found with the vajra vrishabha naracha sanghanan. This, the author argues, must have disappeared gradually in the fourth kala.
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It seems to me that the kind of sanghanana an organism may have, depends not so much on evolution or gradual modification through ancestors and species, as on the nature of the potentialities and forces residing in the organising agency, that is to say the karmana sarira. The author evades this hypothesis and does not pay any attention to the striking differences between the nature and constitution of men and women. Some of these have been clearly brought out in the passage from Bentham's great work. According to M. Charles Baudouin, the talented author of 'Suggestion and Autosuggestion' (see p. 131): "The effort of attention induces fatigue more speedily in women than in men, so that relaxation ensues more speedily in the former." Baudouin further explains :
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"A passing observation is requisite here. It is admitted that women, whose character is in certain respects feebler than that of men, nevertheless display at times the most marvellous endurance and energy. From this some psychologists have inferred that the 'will' of women is, potentially at least if not in actual operation, superior to that of men. But when, on the other hand, we are told that effort is muscular, that the will is in large measure inhibition, and that
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