Jaina Philosophy

SR No.: 006901
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Virchand R Gandhi, Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: World Jain Confederation
Publication Year: 2009
Total Pages: 298
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 5 MB

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The Jaina Philosophy accomplished in accordance with definite relations, and in a succession that remains always the same.
This rhythm of events he calls by various names. Destiny, Order, Reason (Logos) is his First Principle. These predicates, in which physical, ethical and logical order in the world appear as still identified, -prove only the undeveloped state of thought which does not yet know how to separate the different motives. The Stoic's had a little different view of the Logos. According to them the entire universe formed a single, unitary, living, connected whole, and that all particular things worthy determinate forms assumed by a divine primitive power which was in a state of eternal activity. In their view, the deity, as the actively productive and formative power, is a kind of Logos; also the rational part of souls is a consubstantial emanation from the divine Logos.
The Christian idea of Logos is largely influenced by the Stoic doctrine; only - there are added to it the appeal to and supremacy of authority. Eight knowledge was therefore, not possible except – through divine revelation. All knowledge is, as Numinous said, the kindling of the small light from the great light which illumines the world. Later Logos gets entirely personified. Origin teaches that God begets the eternal Son, the Logos, as the sum-total of his world-thoughts, and through him the realm of free spirits, which, limited within itself, surrounds the deity as an ever-living garment.
T have given the above illustration simply for confirming the idea that a word, with advancing civilization develops in meaning. I need not go into the discussion of the various meanings that were attached to Karma at different periods of its history. My present purpose is only to present to the readers a complete view of the subject of Karma as the Jainas have understood it.
What is Karma? Before answering this question, it will be necessary to know what the philosophical view of the Jainas is in
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