Ahimsa and Jainism

Author(s): Vijayvallabhsuri
Publisher: Vallabhsuri Smarak Nidhi

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we find them on the march of conquest of the aboriginal races of India, are invocations of prosperity on themselves and their focks; adoration of the dawn, celebration of the struggle between the god who wields the lightning and the power of darkness, and the rendering of thanks to the heavenly beings for preservation in battle. When they settle down, we see them, engaged in high degree of reflection. Reflection is the moving spirit of philosophy. But all primitive philosophy concerns itself with searching for the origin of the world. It. postulates, atfer naive analysis, an original simple substance, from which it attempts to explain the multiplicity of the cornplex world... Philosophy in this sense assumes various forms. All of then attempt to interpret or rather formulate the law of causation and in that attempt many, fatigued after the long mental strain, stop at some one thing element, or princiole (physical or metaphysical), beyond which they have not mentally the ability to go. The Samkhya Philosophy, for instance, tries to explain evolution and even 'cosmic' consciousness, and the growth of organs, etc. as proceeding from a simple substance called Prakriti, or primordial matter. Orthodox philosophical systems of Indiathat is, those based on the Vedas and the