Jainism Precepts and Practice

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

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of arriving at the same truth.
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. the jar exist as well as in a sense it does not exist.
We may explain this from two different
stand points. We will arrive at the same Another way conclusion of we proceed from the world
showing it to be a system in which everything is determined by everything else in such a way that nothing is self-adeptical and self-complete in the sense in which the untrained mind takes it to be. Everything being determined by other things in this system of reals, the doctrine of pluralism propagating the view of self-sufficiency of objects falls to the ground as we have discussed at length in the preliminary remarks as well as in the Form II
Besides, we may explain the above otherwise which will, we believe, throw sufficient light on the close relationship which exists between the self and the not-self or between mind and matter We must of course bear in mind on this occasion that though these forms apparently deal with concrete instances such as the jar, still they are no less applicable to every thing and being which this universe contains So
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