Jainism Precepts and Practice

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

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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. of knowledge so far as we are concerned ; because it has the characteristics of accessity i.e. the constituent elements of it are apprehended, not as isolated or independant tes ms or notions but as related to or Nowing out of cach other so that one being given, the others must necessarily follow and the whole body of knowledge constitutes one organised system
A penetrating insight into things will Ordinary inake us sure of this existing unity among way of thinking Agzdas the factors of the world. To the unreflec
tive observer, the objects present themselves as separate individual realities quite simple in character But this is not the case, for They are essentially coniplex They are made up of parts which lie outside of one another m space, they do not remain absolutely the same though successive movements of time.
They are continually betraying the pheno Ordinary
menal changes when brought into relation -How can with other existences around them How, the world seem to be then, can we think of them as individual a unity
things inspite of the changes ? The answer often unlıesitatingly forwarded by philosophers is that we can combine diversity with
Parplexities
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