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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
The world
expression of thought.
go in pairs of opposites are but two expressions.
The world system is not alien to thought.
Thought is not accidental to world. Thought system is the is embodied in the world-system. Popular
view is that thought is connected with man's brain and so accident to the world system. In opposition to this the Jains teach that the world system is the expression of thought. The world system is that in which thought goes out of itself. Thought is thus made the essence of the world. It is the Vedânta that somewhere teaches that Nature is the working out of the will and is real in so far the intelligence of man is concerned. But we differ from the Vedântins and hold that thought which is the essence of the world is objective, is something universal or absolute in which the particular thoughts of particular mien partake.
But then there is a prima facie objection
we have to meet. Some says it is imAn objection
possible to take thought as the essence of the world. For it would tantamount to our ignoring the feeling or willing which is as important as thought. True, the objection
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