Jain Journal 1966 10

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

Page 42

JAIN JOURNAL
Absolute expresses itself in A but is not limited to A; it extends to B, C, D and so on. The Universal comes out of itself and particularises Itself in the particular objects of the world system. The Universal of the Jainas thus does not fight shy of the Particulars of the world ; rather it embraces them all into Itself. Such being the Jaina conception of the Absolute, the whole universe of things must needs be ordered in perfect agreement with our cognitions. We are conscious of things as different and non-different at the same time. They are non-different in their causal or universal aspect (kāranātmana jātyātmanā ca abhinnam) but are different in so far as viewed as effects or particulars (kāryātmanā byakt ātmanā ca bhinnam).
(To be continued)