Jain Journal 1970 01

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

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the existence of seven bodies of opposing evidences that result in seven divergent true judgments, at the same time about the same thing. Thus Jainism states that no absolute predication is possible. Here let us understand that Jaina non-absolutism does not mean that Jainas hold no absolute principles for themselves. Jainas hold themselves to Jaina principles through famine and massacre. Within Jainism, non-absolutism works out to mean that whether the individual adopts the pure view of the ascetic or the practical view of the house-holder depends on his goal in life. To non-Jainas, non-absolutism means that the Jaina page in history is free of non-Jaina blood because Jainas practice a mutual sympathy and toleration for the views of others. A warlike society neglects to live and let live. A peacefully co-existent society follows the foundations for working social machinery that is the original Jaina phisosophy of viewpoints.
13. What is complete in Jaina psychology ?
... self-responsibility, or the theory of individual act and consequence. Here the all-India karma theory is pushed to its outer limits as the basis for the Jaina science of human behavior. Jaina thinkers hold that the psychological functions of knowing, willing, and feeling, no less than the physical body, are the result of individual acts. And the soul endures the consequences through successive bodies. If not balanced out in one life, then it will be balanced out in a coming one. Truly a heredity of the soul. How more justly do we resolve the living and dying diversity between us? As such individual differs outside from others, so he differs inside, and at different times, he even differs from himself. He is bearing the impartial fruition of his accumulated karmas. Let us say the body is the soul with its jacket on. Style of the jacket is cut by the pattern of self-acquired kārmic forces that lead the permanent soul to higher or lower impermanent states. Healthywealthy-and-wise, you have only your own past merit to laud, psychotic litter case, again you have only your own past demerit to blame. No diety erases, no priest intercedes, no scripture sanctions your acts in your continuous lives, acts that return to you alone in pains or pleasures. It is self-responsibility to the limit in the clinic of the complete Jaina psychology.
14. What is complete and/or original in the Jaina pair of opposites,
the fine arts and the exact sciences ?
... the proved principle of plant consciousness, and the Western Indian school of painting. This distinctive school of painting, with