Epitome of Jainism

SR No.: 007304
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Total Pages: 860
Language: English
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Polarity of
ness and
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
thinking is thinking of something, it means Subject and that it requires a material on which the Object in thought.
thought-activity is exercised and a fortiori therefore, it implies an object which is discriminated and understood by thought. Thus we can neither imagine a subject sor a thinking principle without an object to think upon, or a world without conceiving a cogitative principle as thinking it. And this is how we become conscious of the Self or
Subject and the Not-Self or Objeet. Conscious And from this it is evident that consknowledge ciousness arises only from the action and and interac- inter-action of the Self and Not-Self as such ;
d and constituted as we are, our knowledge
must therefore begin with sensations from the peripheral contact of the senses with their respective objects, and consists in
the interpretation of the sensations which tation know. they arouse in us; for, merely having sensa
tions and feelings would not constitute knowledge. Therefore the knowledge of a thing is the interpretation and understanding of the sensation in such a manner as would correspond to the existing relations between the self and the Not-Self and other sur
from
action
tion between the twothe Self and the Not-Self.
Sen sation Interpre
ledge and its formation.
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