Book Title: Account of Jainism
Author(s): Unknown
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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________________ Jainism. Jain Education International 113 satisfies our needs. Thought is said to move to and fro like the pendulum of a clock. As the school of Parmenides was followed by that of Heracleitus, Bhavaikant was followed by its opposite counter-part, the Abhavaikant. Both agree in being confined to an absolutely one-sided view of the universe; but the latter takes up just the end of the stick that their predicessors totally failed to grasp. Abhavaikant means that form of monism which holds every-thing to be Asadroop or non-being. It is hard to understand what this exactly means. But in its most obvious form, it is met very easily by Jainism by saying that if every-thing is unreal, the reasoning which tries to prove all else unreal connot save itself from the same fate. The Baudhas, who are known in philosophy as Kshanikekânt Vadis, are however too hard to be thus summarily silenced. They slightly differ from their speculative kinsmen in emphasising upon the fleeting nature of all existence which For Personal & Private Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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