International Jain Conference 1985 3rd Conference

Author(s): Satish Jain, Kamalchand Sogani
Publisher: Ahimsa International

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one's tea, while the other wants lemon. The recognition that no predication exhausts what can be said about something, that from different aspects different claims may hold true about the same thing, is an important philosophical teaching whose practical consequences will facilitate a genuine brotherhood of mankind. We must recognize that the condition for community is not identity of views, but rather, an imaginative appreciation of how it may be the case that what is so for us is not so from the position of our neighbour.
. In conclusion, then, we see that it is important for the whole world to learn the teachings of the Jainas, so that everyone may profit from the wisdom of that heritage. Unless we do so soon, we may discover that the neglect of these principles can teach these very principles much more harshly than the gentle Sutras and their gentle practitioners would.
Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Those who have attachment, For shape, colour, form and all, By mind, word and body, All such live in misery.
Uttaradhyayana, Chap. VI 12
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