Bhagavana Mahavira and his Relevance in Modern Times

Author(s): Narendra Bhanavat, Prem Suman Jain, V P Bhatt
Publisher: Akhil Bharat Varshiya Sadhumargi Jain Sangh

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ourselves and suppose to exist in our fellow-animals."19 So according to this doctrine of atomstic hylozoism, “there must be an infinite number or degrees of consciousness, following the degress of complication and aggregation of the primordial mind-dust":20 This minddust can be compared well with the manovarganās, which constitute manas (mind) as conceived in Jaina Metaphysics. The comparative study of these brief outlines of the Indian Concepts of mind reveals that the Jaina Concept of mind has made a synthetic approach to this problem from the physical and psychical points of view like modern Psychology.
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1. "Tadabhavadanu manah", Vaisesika Sutra by Kanada. 7-1-23
2. “Na,yugapadanekakriyopalabdheh.........up to
Nyayasutra by Gautama,, 3-2-57-59.
yathoktahetutvaccanu".
3. “Prakaranapancika”, by Salikanatha Misra. p. 151,
4. “Yasmat karmendriyani buddhindriyani ca satvikadahankaradutpadaante,
mano api tasmadeva utpadyate", Matharavriti by Matharacarya. 27. (Karika)
5. “Vijnanam prativijnaptih mana ayatanam ca tat" "Sannamanantara titani vijnanam yaddhi tanmanah",
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-Darsana and Cintana by Pandit Sukhlalji, p. 139.
6. Tasmaccittasya dharma
by Madhavacarya, p. 35.
yrttayo
natmanah",
Sarvadarsana Sangraha
7. Tamraparniya api hrdayavastu manovijnanadhatorasrayam kalpayanti",
Abhidharmakosa, Sphutar tha by Yasomitra, p. 41, vide Darsana and Cintan, p. 140.
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