Jainism Christianity and Science

SR No.: 011064
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: The Indian Press Allahabad
Publication Year: 1930
Total Pages: 219
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 8 MB

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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCES
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Is not this, then, cruel, monstrous, savage? Does it not seem to you, O Jupiter, unjust and barbarous that I should be killed, and that I should be slain, that you may be soothed, and the guilty find impunity?'"-Ibid. pp. 314-316.
"When meantime Moses, that faithful and wise steward, perceived that the vice of sacrificing to idols had been deeply ingraine into the people from their association with the Egyptians, and that the root of this evil could not be extracted from them, he allowed them indeed to sacrifice, but permitted it to be done only to God, that by any means he might cut off one half of the deeply ingrained evil, leaving the other half to be corrected by another, and at a future time; ..."—(Recognitions of Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. iii. p. 168. (9) Wisdom Divine, that is to say, the teaching of the Tirthamkara, in Jainism is divided into twelve departments, known as angas. In the. Bible, Wisdom is described as “a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her” (Proverbs iii. 13-18), and in Revelation the tree of life is described as bearing twelve kinds of fruits whose leaves are for the healing of nations. It is also to be noticed that the Tirthamkaras' Teaching is portrayed in Jainism in the form of a tree having just twelve branches! An illustration of this tree is kept in bronze in many temples by the Jains.
The main difference between Jainism and Christianity consists in the fact that in the former the whole teaching is expressed fearlessly and plainly, but in the latter it is hidden and secret, and fragmentary alsd. The detailed information contained in the Jaina Books could not be given to those who were unable to appreciate and grasp the general rudiménts. Jainism is characterized by a fine analysis of karmic forces, by the practical outlook implied in the division of the rugged path into the preliminary. (mild) and the advanced (austere) courses, and by a detailed description of the