Anandrushi Abhinandan Granth

Author(s): Vijaymuni Shastri, Devendramuni
Publisher: Maharashtra Sthanakwasi Jain Sangh Puna

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The Jaina Idea of Universe
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the same substance and that there are no four classes of atoms corresponding to elements; but the varying size and form of atoms with corresponding sourness, etc. accepted by them is not possible Jainism.
Ās in Jainism, Dharma and Adharma are never used as the medium of motion and rest anywhere else. The Sankhya idea that Dharma leads upwards and Adharma downwards is merely the ethico-religious idea quite usual in Gita and other works. In Jainism, they are non-corporal and homogeneous-whole substances. Dr. Hermann Jacobi holds this as mark of antiquity of Jainism. The function of Adharma Dravya corresponds to Newton's theory of gravitation.
Like the Jainas, the European mathematicians Cantor, Peano and Frege have accepted the reality of Space and Time. Jainism and Nyāya-Vaiśesika agree in holding Ākāśa as all pervading and eternal, but Jainism does not accept that sound is a quality of Ākāśa; but it is produced only when molecules strike against one another. This view is held by the modern science also. The realistic philosopher Bertrand Russell also says that though time is the existent subsbance; still it is not merely experienced. Jainism holds that time is unilateral and in mathematical language it is called munodimentional.
Considering the above discussion, I now conclude my article in H. Wasren's Words:
“The power which creates and destroys things is not extra-cosmic outside the above named six realities, the power is inherent in the things themselves, and is found in both the intelligent and in the nonintelligent realities. This power is not called God in Jainism. That is the Jain position."
References: 1 तं परयाणहि दवु तुहँ जं गुणयज्जय जुत्तु । सहभुव जाण हि ताहें गुण कमभुव पज्जउ वुत्तु ।
-परमात्मप्रकाश, I-75 2 दव्वं संलक्खणियं उप्पादव्वयधूवत्तसंजुत्तं । गुणपज्जायासयं वा जं तं भण्णंति सब्वण्णू ।।
-पञ्चास्तिकाय:, 10 3 जीवमजीवं दव्वं ।
-द्रव्यसंग्रह, 1 4 जीवो पुण चेदणोवओगमओ।
-प्रवचनसार, II-35 5 अप्पा देहपमाणु मुणि ।
-परमात्मप्रकाश, I-51 6 संसारिणो मुक्ताश्च ।।
-तत्त्वार्थाधिगमसूत्रम् II-10 7 जीतु सचेयगु दवु मुणि पंच अचेयणा अण्ण । पोग्गलु धम्माहम्मु णहु काले सहिमा भिण्ण ॥
---परमात्मप्रकाश, II-17 8 अणवः स्कन्धाश्च ।
-तत्वार्थाधिगमसूत्रम् V-25 9 स्निग्धरूक्षत्वाद् बन्धः ।
-Ibid. V-32
आपाप्रवनवअभिनआचार्यप्रवर अभिनय श्रीआनन्दन्थश्रीआनन्दमन