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through priesthood, ritualism and casteism. But we should understand this not in the form of revolt but in the form of reform in Indian culture. The Jaina and the Buddhist traditions have acted as medical practitioners in cleansing Indian culture and making it healthy. It has to be kept in mind that a doctor is never an enemy, but a friend. Unfortunately, Indian thinkers influenced by western thinkers and to an extent Jaina and Buddhist thinkers also, started believing that Jaina and Vedic religions are mutually opposed but it is a wrong notion. Even though in their original form Vedic and śramaộic cultures might have been different from each other.
Today, neither is Hindu tradition completely Vedic in that sense nor are Jaina and Buddhist traditions completely Sramanic. Today, Hindu religion or Jaina and Buddhist religions in their present forms are mixed forms of both Vedic and Śramaņa cultures. It is a different matter that they still have pravritti and nivritti aspects predominant in them eg.it can be said that Jaina religion is nivritti-dominated even today, and Hindu religion is pravritti-dominated; still, it would be proper to accept that both of them are the outcome of the combination of pravritti and nivșitti. Even according to Jainism Ķsabhadeva before he renounced the world, expounded pravritti-marga or duty towards family, society or state. It has already been clarified earlier that this mutual exchange is first attempted in Īśāvasyopanisad. Thus today when Upanisadas need to be understood from the perspective of the Sramana tradition, Jaina and Buddhist traditions need to be studied from the Aupanisadika perspective. Just as desire and conscience (Preya and Sreya) though different, are essential aspects of human personality, Sramanic and Vedic streams are both essential parts of Indian culture. In fact, none of these cultures are based on any one single foundation.
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| SR No. | 032590 |
| Book Title | Jainism And Its History |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Sagarmal Jain |
| Publisher | Research Foundation for Jainology |
| Publication Year | 2018 |
| Total Pages | 328 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 34 MB |