Jainism Precepts and Practice

Author(s): Puranchand Nahar, Krishnakant Ghosh
Publisher: Caxton Publications

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( VII ) is bound to get at that state of being and beatitude which is all free and divine. For freedom is our birth-right. Every soul is consututionally free and potentially divine. Aud the struggle for existence in this nether world. means with the Jains not only the struggle for bare existence in this mortal coil, but for the realization as well of this Ideal Freedom and Divinity.
With this end the enquiries constituting the Right Vision--the basis of Right know. ledge
But Right Knowledge which proceeds from Right Vision by a coherent train of thought and reasoning and which can only lead to Right Conduct without which the attainment of the Goal in vision is held to be impossible, is the knowledge which embrares concisely or in details, the relations in which the constituent factors of the world stand to soul and the changes as well of these relations in the dialectic movement of thouglac and being. And all these, more technically speaking, begin with Chapter XVIII on the 'Karma Phenomenology'. The readers will find much interest to enter on a nery kind of