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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
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tween the two
When we consider the general nature of Uni verse- the Universe or of our life as rational being, Subject, Ob
endowed Unity be.
with the powers of thinking and willing, we find that it is defined and, so to speak, circumscribed by three ideas which are closely and even indissolubly connected with each other. These three ideas are the ideas or the constituent elements of the universe or the factors of it which are inseparably connected with each other and so involve each other. These are (i) the idea of the Object
(Htrt) or Not-self ( ta) (ii) the idea of the Subject (Ha) or the Self (hta) (iii) and the idea of the Unity which is presupposed in the clifference of the Self and the Not-self and in and through which they act and react on each other.
To explain these terms more fully, the Explanation Object (sit) is the general name under
which we include the external world, and all things and beings in it, all that we know and all that we act on, the whole environment which conditions the activity of the ego and furnishes the means and sphere through which it rea
of the above three terms.
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