Jainism Precepts and Practice

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

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at some length, the psychology and philosophy of the matter and form of this methyatva A little reflection will be sufficient, 'we belive, to convince an impartial student of the history of Indian schools of thought that the theory of Maya resolving into dvaran and urkshepa as interpreted by Shankar and others of his line of thinking, is but a .distorted shadow of the Jain theory of mithyatva For, to deny Mayê, therefore, of any positive entity and to posit .it at the same time as the great impediment in the way to the true selfrealisation is to be guilty of substantializing the abstraction In order to escape from this difficulty, Ramanuja, another interpreter of the Vedanta Sutrus, had to draw inspirations from the teachings and writtings of the Jain sages, and, in consequence, bad to fall back upon the Jain doctrine of Unity in Difference or the Theory of Bhedabheda vad, the legitimate outcome of the Syadvid or the dialectic method of reasoning giving a more comprehensive view of thought and Being It is true that Ramanuja speaks of Bodhayana as his authority for the enunciation of the doctrine of Unity in