Encyclopaedia Of Jainism

Author(s): P C Nahar, K C Ghosh
Publisher: Satguru Publications

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serve as a basis or ground-work of a particular form of Faith or Religion. For instance, the School of Jaimini stands to support the Karma Kända of the Vedic Hindus. The Ayaya and the Vaisheshika have been to serve as the basis of the Dualistic forms of worship as are advocated in the Hindu Smritis and the Puranas. The Sankhya and the Yoga philosophies which clear the ways of renunciation and moral apathy to all that is worldly, not only support other dualistic and Tantric forms of worship but themselves form the science and psycho logy of the Uttar Mimånså by Vyasa. But when we direct our attention to the West, we find Socrates, the sage, poisioned with hemloc for preaching a philosophy that went against the religion of his time and nativity. Who does not know how Christianity trembles even now to hear the names of David Hume, Mill, Comte, Kant, Fichte, Hoefding or Hegel ?
Now what is the lesson that we gather from a comparative study of the attitude of minds of both the East and the West ? We learn that India all along enjoyed a kind of intellectual freedom and religious toleration