Jainism Precepts and Practice

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

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CHAPTER XI. THE DOCTRINE OF UNITY IN DIFFERENCE.
The dialectic seasoning leads to the Theory of Bhedabhed ic. of Unity in difference Distinction presupposes Unity--The world ayatem is an exprerion of thought-The Juin conception of the Absolute distinguished from the Absolute beyond the relative of the Vedentiae Now what has been discussed in the
The law preceeding pages on Syadvåd, it is quite contrad:
tron ist apparent that the law of contradiction is the negati:
aspect of t negative aspect of thelaw of identity. We have law of ido seen that with the Jains, everything implies 'something' opposed to it. This implies 'that', 'bere' implies 'there', 'now' implies 'then' The trend of the argument is that everything is real only in relation to and distinction from every other thing This being so, the law of contradiction is not virtually denied absolutely. What the Jain philosophers want us to understand is this that absolute distinction which the ordinary interpretation presupposes is not a correct view of things. Rather it is to be borne in mind that distinction presupposes a unity of which, the Jiva and Ajiva and the like that
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