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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
Kapila's
We think in relations. To us therefore the Subiect and conception of the world-system is nothing Object.
beyond the conception of the relation between the subjective and the objective realities. Purush, Kapil says, is, the self or the spirit. Empirically it is the Subjective reality or the Experiencer (sta) and Prakı iti or Nature is the Objective Reality or the Experienceable-(HRVI). The whole universe where in we live, move and have our being is the outcome of the unfoldment of this relation between Purush, the Spirit or the Subject and Prakriti—the Nature or the Object.
Some Oriental scholars hold that this The Origin Dualistic hypothesis as to the past history of of Kapila's
Natures which finds its echo in the Cartesan Theory of Dualism, was originally formulated by the sage Kapil and is of far later origin in comparison with the Vedas. But such is not the case. We are of opinion that the doctrine is as old as the Vedas themselves. And the sage drew inspirations from the Vedas and this is why the System of Sankhya Philosophy though indirectly denying the existence of God for want of evidence has
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