ISJS Jainism Study Notes E5 Vol 04

SR No.: 007719
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: International School for Jain Studies
Publisher: International School for Jain Studies
Publication Year: 2011
Total Pages: 567
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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the sake of ease in understanding they are all clubbed under these two viewpoints. Jain logicians have gone a step further and divided each viewpoint in two further categories as follows:
Transcendental viewpoint: Pure and impure. Practical viewpoint: Sadbhuta and Asadbhuta
By the very definition of transcendental viewpoint, we cannot think of different limbs or parts / classifications of this viewpoint. However different c ryas have referred to it by different names such as pure (uddha), impure (a uddha), supreme (param uddha) and true (bhut rtha) transcendental viewpoints after making some additions to the explanations given earlier. Later on they started using them as different types of transcendental viewpoints also. For our discussions, we shall not go in details of these different types of viewpoints.
Coming to practical viewpoint, it is possible to divide it in different types according to our intention and the infinite existences to be cognized and their utility. Broadly it is divided in two types namely Sadabhuta or and asadabhuta. In sadabhuta we talk of vertical universal (feeling of same in two modes of an object) attributes and serial transformation from one mode to another in a substance (called particular / specific or vi e a) like ageing. In Asadabhuta we talk of similarities and differences of one entity with others like herd of cows, forest having many types of tree and plantations and animals. However it is be noted that practical viewpoint is used only to improve our understanding the attributes and nature of an entity and carry on our day to day life by discriminating between good and bad. Other Jain texts have further classified practical viewpoint on different basis as of 4, 7, 46 and innumerable. The most popular classification used is of seven viewpoints, which shall be discussed as a separate lecture later on under the topic epistemology.
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