Anekant 1938 Book 02 Ank 01 to 12

SR No.: 538002
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jugalkishor Mukhtar
Publisher: Veer Seva Mandir Trust
Publication Year: 1938
Total Pages: 759
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Anekant, & India
File Size: 105 MB

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Anekant
कार्तिक वीर-निर्वाण सं०२४६५
We cannot conceive of light with properties uncommon with any out darkness. The character of other thing in the universe. light is exactly reverse that of darkness. Therefore if there is a
6. AKASA medium for motion there must Akasa is Space. It gives room be medium for rent also. This is for all other five elements named also an established truth not above. It could not be confused beyond the imagination of scien- with the sky we see. Akasa tists.
according to Jain meta-physicists 5. KALA
exists even inside liquid, earth,
and metals. In 10 c.c. of water Kala is time. According to you drop 1 gram of salt or sugar, Jain Metaphysics it is an element it dissolves, but the volume of the that iarks, registers or roughly liquid remains the same. Where brings about change in everything has the extra volume of 1 gram of we see and even among things salt disappeared? The answer is, beyond our vision. It may be it has occupied the space inherent admitted that there is nothing in in the liquid. That space is Akasa. this universe that is always at rest. It pervades the whole of the that does not change. Sun, stars. mmiverse. Its character is to earth, vegetation, human beings, provide room for all things in the animals all undergo change every miverse. Without Akasa nothing second or even every thousand can exist independently of one inillionth part of a second. With another. It is due to Akasa that out cause there is no effect. Then everything finds its own place. what is the cause or what is behind Can anyone imagine a 7th element? all these changes. It may be I t is rather difficult to explain said, it is the very nature of in a short article of this size, the things. But that answer will be six dravyas contemplated by the only begging a question. What Jain metaphysicists and remove all is that nature, what is the cause of doubts and answer all counter such a nature? The cause of such arguments. The main idea of this a nature that brings changes in article is to prove that the conthings is called by Jain Meta- ception of Jain metaphysicists is not physicists as 'Kala'. Properly opposed to the present-day scienticonceived it is not the character fic theories. On the other hand, of Pudgala. Dharma, Adharma or the development of material Jiva. It is independent of them science has made it easier to unand one additional cement among derstand and appreciate the worth them. Its function in the universe of Jain Metaphysicists written or is different and it has independent told more than thousand years ago.