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Bertrand Russell, ABC of Relativity.
? Many have debated the question why Jainism failed to spread, as Buddhism did. The reason lies here. Jainism was propounding a scientific truth which was very much ahead even of modern science, what to speak of pseudosciences and philosophy current about 3000 years back. Since it cared little for current beliefs and emotions, its mass appeal was bound to be limited.
8 Being baffled by its complex nature, even Sankara was obliged to cover the empirical reality under the generic expression 'maya' about which he wrote in Vivekacudamani :
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sannapyasannapyubhayatmika no bhinnapyabhinnapyubhayatmika no
sangapyanangapyubhayatmika no mahadbhutanirbacaniyarupa.
Cf. nasato vidayte bhabo nabhaho vidyate satah, Gita, 2/16.
10 S. Dasgupta, History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. I.
11 C. W. Miller, A Scientist's Approach to Religion.
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