Introduction to Jainsim

Author(s): Dewan Bahadur A B Lathe
Publisher: Jain Mitra Mandal

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JAINISM
a subjection that raises man's higher nature supreme. Nor is self-conquest the end and aim of man. Truly does Shri .Gunbhadra starts his “Self-discipline" FICHIGOTIATE by telling his
self "Oh soul! greatly doest thou fear misery and long for happiness. I will tell thee the path of that Tael which thou thus longest for.” It should be also remembered that Jainism is a true moral philosophy on another ground, although it is suspected to teach man utter depreciation of worldly life. The soul that was destined to attain Nirvan within the span of its running life was the soul that went through all the i mportant epochs of man's life as we understand it. Nay, it is the principle of Jainism that the life we live, is the one on which the existence of its ascetics depends and through which its purified asceticism grows. While describing the value of human life, an ancient Jain teacher says :-It is in human life that Tapas, the great Vows, concentration or even Salvation is possible. † Nothing could give life a nobler ideal and a more glowing hue.
THE FREEWILL THEORY
Here we might resume our question as to whether the theory of determination by the Karma allow's room for freedom of will. The pantheistic systems of the cast are charged with being unmoral in tendency in as far as they make the human a part and parcel of the divine soul. The essential unity of the two is rightly considered to be a deathblow to moral feeling. If the part is what the whole has made it, there is no responsibility for wrong or credit for right. It is not however clear, how
मणु अगईए वि तो अणुनगईए महत्वयं सयलं । मणुअगईए झारणं मणुप्रगईए वि रिणवारणं ।।
The Anuprekshas of Swami Kartika.