Jain Journal 1993 04

SR No.: 520110
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 67
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 4 MB

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ful, is what Syādvāda, stands for. Even the learned Sankarácarya is not free from the charge of injustice that he has done to the doctrine. Sýădvāda emphasies the fact that no single view of the universe or any part of it would be complete. There will always remain the possibilities of viowing it from other stand points."
Dr. Harisatya Bhattacharya says "The Syādvāda is a theory presenting things as they really are ; it is not a set of formal proposi tions divorced from and unconnected with matters of experience."
Dr. Hermann Jacobi, a German scholar of Jain philosophy, stated firmly before the 3rd International Congress of the History of Religions as under.-"In conclusion let me assert my conviction that Jainism is an original system, quite distinct and independent from all others and that therefore, it is of great importance for the study of philosophical thought and religious life in ancient India."10
Science and Religion
Science is the reasoned knowledge based on experimental facts. Science is a series of approximations towards the truth but not the ultimate truth. Einstein the discoverer of the theory of relativity said that "knowledge and faith are the two inseparable companions in the universe. Knowledge is science and faith is religion, Religion without science is blind and science without religion is lame." And I would say that Jainism is a perfect science with true religion. Every aspect of Jainism is based on scientific principle aiming at to understand the living and non-living entities of the universe and to set free the mundane beings from pain and miseries of embodied existence and instal them in the liberated state of supreme bliss. Its message of peace and happiness is for all beings of the world. Jainism does not allow you to accept or believe any statement with blind faith. There is no room for superstitions in Jainism because it is not based on imaginations.
Many persons believe that religion and science both are opposite to each other and the religion seems to reduce tho importance of scionte and vice versa. But if seen in the light of reason and logic they appear
9 lbid. 10 Diwakar, S. C., Glimpses of Jainism, p. 10.