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CHAPTER V
Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
JAINISM
Jainism represents a powerful reaction against the orthodox Brahmanic religion. Jainism represents a revolt against the old Vedic sacrificialism. The Vedic religion had been degraded at that time. In the name of sacrifices to be offered to Gods to appease them, serious atrocities were being committed. Cārvākism and Jainism are called anti-Vedic schools for this reason that they resisted the Brahmanic aggres sion on other castes and that they fought against the Brahmanic practices of perpetrating atrocities in the name of religion and God. Jainism was simultaneous with Buddhism and both preached the principles of love and sympathy. Jainism, like Buddism, strove to do away with class distinctions based upon birth and occupation and thereby to combat the Brahmanic arrogance and aggression. Jainism did not completely abolish the class distinctions but it did not attach to the classes the original religious sanctity of Brāhmanism. Jainism denounced like Buddhism the authority of the Vedas; and it did not believe also in God. Jainism is therefore atheistic and anti-Vedic; however, it retained some of the features of the Brahmanic religion. As A. Barth describes it - "The Jainas, like the Buddhists, reject the Veda of the Brahmanas, which they pronounce apocryphal and
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| SR No. | 020053 |
| Book Title | tman_and_moksa |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | G N Joshi |
| Publisher | Gujarat University |
| Publication Year | 1965 |
| Total Pages | 901 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 12 MB |