Ratnamuni Smruti Granth

SR No.: 010772
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vijaymuni Shastri, Harishankar Sharma
Publisher: Gurudev Smruti Granth Samiti
Publication Year: 1964
Total Pages: 687
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 21 MB

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GURUDEVA SMRITI GRANTHA
means that the events in the world process are determined by their antecedent causes. So the theory of determinism pre-supposes relationism, that is, the entities 10 tha world admit of relations If the elements in the world process are absolute discrete, the events in the world process will be absolutely different from each other, and the question of their relation of causation and hence of their determination fails to the ground. Dr Mookerjee observes • "Relations cannot be held between absolutely distinct or absolutely identical facts Identity and difference both are pre-suppositions of relation. These relations are not purely a product of subjectivism, but have an objective status. Regarding the potency of relations it is said, "Relation, whether internal or external, is integral to the terms and is the result of an internal change in the nature of terms " By this we must mean that there is no absolutism of relationism ; non-relationism finds an equally significant place in the structure of reality. "If there is absolute relationism. both the terms in the relation stand unploved. If there is absolute non-relationism, a real loses its universality and particularity » Such is the view of Samantabhadra It is this relational-cum-nonrelational nature of reality on which stands the theory of causation So causation is not destructive to the independent identity of the entities that come into relation of causation Hence a valid form of determinism must imply the independence of the determinatum and its dependence on the causal factors "The effect is a modification of the cause and thus is not absolutely different or identical with the cause, Qua substance the two are the same, qua qualities and modes they are numerically different." This conception of causation is apekantika 10 spirit and well maintains the truth of the two implicates of the theory of causation
According to indeterminism what we think determination of one event by another is nothing more than a parallelism The events run parallel to each other ann there is nothing like a causal efficacy for mutual determination in them, their coincidence being a chance happening. But a sober thinker must hesitate from holding the supremacy of chance in the world The Universe shows so perfect a design that an inclination to hold it a divine creation is felt by some. The universe 18 subject to some laws, it 18 a cosmos not a chaos Even in the realm of morality indeterminism does not seem to be all valid The actions which are subject to moral judgment originate from conscious beings. For this reason such actions are psychological, and there are psychologists who think that all psychological phenomena are determined. Thus morality 18 thought to require free actions while psychology is considered to provide actions Where to seek for the free actions ? 1. Ibid, p. 197. 2. Ibid, p. 208. 3 Samantabhadra . Apta Mimanga, verse 73 4. S. Mookerjes : Jalna Philosophy of Non-absolutism, p. 213.