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THE PASSAGE FROM NESCIENCE..
We may conclude, therefore, with the remark that know. ledge and conduct are not two watertight compartments in Jainism. The summun-bonum of spiritual life is at once infiniteknowledge, faith, bliss and power. Knowledge here is not only a means as in the case of right knowledge but also as an end in the form of omniscience. The spiritual ideal of the Jainas is an integral one where knowledge, faith, bliss and power are strewn together. This means an integral-idealism. The state is not a vacuity, nor an abstract consciousness; it is a concrete ideal of knowledge and faith, power and happiness. As knowledge without faith is purile, so faith without knowledge is dogmatic. But both of them without power remain an infoten utopia, but power in itself is not a worthy end. Power is desirable only for bliss.
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