Jainism

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

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by the Jains. In like manner the Gujrati language has received great patronage from the Jain writers and it owes its present greatness to them alone. Thus we see that Jainism has been greatly instrumental in laying the foundations of several languages. This fact speaks volumes for its greatness and for its impartiality towards all languages. .
From literature, let us proceed to see what Jainism has achieved in the field af Science. The Jain Philosophers appear to have fully anticipated it. The mysterious puzzle, what is man and what is Universe and what are their relations with each other, has been most satisfactorily solved by the Jain Tirthankars.
Jainism says that the Universe is uncreated and has no beginning and no end, that the union of soul with matter is eternal, that nature is but an endless series of cause and effect and man is the architect of his fortune.
It discards the ridiculous theory of the existence of an all powerful, invisible being, possessing the powers of creating and destroying the universe at his will and presiding over the destinies of men. Modern science also
is slowly arriving after a long struggle, at these