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JAINISM AND DEMOCRACY
Bhikṣu, but it lacks support from Jaina tradition. The canonical literature defines knowledge as the illuminer. The school of logicians also supports the same view. Yaśovijaya compares soul with the sun, having a natural faculty of illumining the objects. For this purpose it does not require any physical contact with the object. Kunda Kunda also says "The omniscient neither enters into the objects nor is entered into by the object. Still, it perceives all the objects. : The Soutrāntika School of Buddhism admits two factors as the regulator of knowledge. Firstly, it cognizes the object from which it is produced. Secondly, the cognition takes the form of the object. As knowledge is self-lyminary it perceives the modified for and infers the object through that. Jainism does not enter into these complicacies. It does not admit object as the producer of knowledge nor believes in the theory of model change. It believes in attention or Upayoga only. The consciousness is like a lamp in one's hand. It is always burning with its glaring light. One is required to direct it towards the object for apprehension. This, direction is known as Upayoga.
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