Jainism

Author(s): Vallabh Smarak Nidhi
Publisher: Vallabh Smarak Nidhi

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towards the knowledge of the real truth. It is from this point of view of its synthetic outlook that the jain system has been claimed by its own logicians as a synthesis of the so-called false beliefs.
We have thus seen how a difference, or, to be more accurate, a seeming difference of opinion may rise beetwen two persons when they are actually speaking about two different aspects of the truth. There would, similarly, be a great manifestation of difference when they both use the same word in different senses One say, "God is the Creator of the Universe." Another says, "God is not the Creator of the Universe." In spite of their utter difference the two statements can very well be reconciled if the idea of God in each case is analysed when it will probably be found that the one who believes God to be the creator means by God the ultimate power of Nature which is at the root of all that exists; while the other means by it the absolved soul, the ideal of peace and supreme bliss which his opponent perhaps calls by some other name such as the Muktaatma or the like.
There can hardly be anything of practical value in life which will hold good for all times