Jain Journal 2005 10

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

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JAGDISH PRASAD JAIN : ANIKĀNIA IN THE CONCEPT OF ABSOLUTE IN JAINISM
Nāgärjuna's Madhyamika school of Buddhism, “Everything is by its nature empty." For instance, agent and action are mutually dependent, therefore their independent existence cannot be demonstrated. So Nāgārjuna says, all relations and the forins of existence ultimately lead to void. Void transcends all causal relationships and could be termed as ultimate reality. And this void is said to be unconditioned, one Absolute Reality."" Obviously, clinging to emptiness or void of Buddhism is as much an illusion as treating the objective reality of the temporal empirical existence of subject and object as a dreamworld or an unreal world of Advaita Vadānta. The Jaina concept of the Absolute alone seems to be realistic.
16. Kailash Vajpeye, "Nagarjuna's Ultimate Reality= Void," Times of India (New
Delhi), 11 September 2004