Jain Journal 1986 01

SR No.: 520081
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 1986
Total Pages: 55
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 4 MB

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JAIN JOURNAL
Criticism of Upanisadic ātmadvaita or brahmädvaita is found in early Jaina Agamas such as Sūtrakstānga,and Višeşāvas yakabhāşya. The line of presentation and refutation of Advaita is more or less similar in all the major works of Jainism. Certain common features are found in both Jainism and Advaita Vedanta such as liberation as the highest goal of life, ignorance of Reality as the cause of our bondage, law of karma, jivanmukti etc. Still in certain other matters both the systems are diametrically opposed to each other. Absolutism of Advaita Vedanta claims that, Reality is one without a second, this world is mere appearance and ultimately there is no difference between supreme Reality and individual soul. Jainism is a system of realism, dualism and pluralism. It is a realism because it recognises the reality of the external world, it is a kind of dualism, because it advocates two fundamental realities the jiva (soul) and the ajivao (matter) which are obviously contradictorily related to each other, and a pluralism on account of belief in plurality of substance. 10 Advaita Vedanta believes in absolute non-dualism while Jainism advocates non-absolutism or many-sided theory of Reality (anekāntavāda). It rejects both the extreme view of absolute eternality as well as absolute non-existence. It is a system of unity in difference, of one-in-many and of identity-inchange. 11 According to Jainism Advaita Vedanta is one-sided theory which rejects particularities and emphasises only oneness of Reality. It gives only partial knowledge of Reality and falls under the samgrahanaya.12
.evamegeti jappanti manya arambhanissia ege kicca sayam pavam tivvam dukkham
niyacchui—Sutrakrtanga, 1-10, and See 8,9, 11, p. 31-35 ed. Ambikadatta Oza, pub. Jaina Jnanodaya Society, Rajkot, V. S. 1993. ? Visesavasyakabhasya (V.A.B.), II, gatha 2036-2045, pub. L. D. Institute of Indo
logy, Ahmedabad, 1968. 8 (a) brahmasatyam jaganmithya jivobrahmai va naparah--Brahmajnanavalimala,
verse 20, Works of Sri Sankaracarya, Vol. 16, p. 224, Vanivilas Press,
Srirangam. (b) Bhamati-mangala, verse 1, Brahmasutra Sankarabhasya with Ratnaprabha;
Bhamati and Anandagiri Vyakhya, ed. Mahadev Shastri Bakre, pub. Nirnaya
sagara Press, Bombay, 1909. Tattvarthadhigamasutra (T.S.) with Siddhasenagani Tika, 1-4, ed. H. R. Kapadia,
pub, J.S. Javeri, Bombay, 1926. 10 (a) T.S., I, v. 2.
(b) Pramananayatattvalokalankara (P.N.T.), VII, 56, p. 560, ed. H. S. Bhattacharya, 11 pub. Jaina Sahitya Vikas Mandal, Bombay, 1967.
Saddarsana Samuccaya with Gunaratnasuri Tika, p. 3-4, ed. Mahendra Kumar
Jain, pub. Bharatiya Jnanapitha, Kasi, 1969. 12 (a) Akalanka, Siddhiviniscaya (S.V.) with Tika, p-II, p. 677-78, ed. Mahendra
Kumar Jain, pub. Bharatiya Jnanapitha, Kasi, 1959. (b) P.N.T., VII-13, 15, 16, p. 518-520.