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It has been indicated and presented before the world, the truth that presents useful ideals for the creation of life.
It has been indicated earlier that there are two types of substances in the world... conscious and unconscious. Both these types of substances exhibit diversity. Where there is a relationship between the peculiarities of unconscious substances and the diversities of partially conscious elements, the Jain view is that the combination of time, etc., is the cause. The origin of any work does not happen from only one cause, but the origin of that work happens when all the necessary causes come together. It never happens that one power alone can accomplish its work. Yes, it may be that there is one main cause in a work and others are secondary, but it does not happen that one alone can accomplish the work independently.
This statement is logical and reasonable. We experience this in our daily lives and our perception is also of the same kind. But Purushavada-Brahmavada and Ishwaravada... in the world, the peculiarities and diversities of conscious or unconscious substances in any form... do not become the main or secondary cause. Because in the form in which the nature of Brahma and Ishwara has been considered, its validity is not established and their importance is only harmed. The concept of Purushavada in relation to the world has been hinted at earlier, but to show the futility of that concept, we consider some special points here.
The first form of Purushavada is Brahmavada and its view is that there is one Brahma, it is Sat, it has no other form, but whatever diversity we see is all illusion, that is, it is the Maya of Brahma, but Brahma itself is not visible to anyone and this illusion is a false form, because it appears to be false. What appears to be false is false, it is Asat. Just as there is a false perception of silver in a piece of conch shell. The same...