Jainism Precepts and Practice

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

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Hegel
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM unified knowledge". "Philosophy" according to a third, "is the science of the Absolute," in the sense that it takes the world of Nature not as a product of chance but of a Single Infinite Power whose activity consists in the working out of a plan or purpose in the course of which It evolves this world out of Itself Thus has philosophy been variously defined by different thinkers of different ages and climes.
The Jains, however, teach that philoas defined sophy consists in the voluntary and consistent by the Jo
striving, intellectual and moral, manifest in the removal of impediments on the way to Right Vision (ARTE ETA) into the metaphysics of things and thoughts leading to Right Knowledge (HRT $19) of the world as a whole, and of our own function and placeRight Conduct (HRGE afra) therein with the express object of realizing finally the free and beatific state of our being the ultimate end and purpose of all life and activity
Taking. philosophy, then, as an attempt Its Method to attain to a free and beatific state of of enquiry
being by the virtue of Right Conduct. - (groot fra) proceeding from Right Know
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