Book Title: Jainism by Vividus
Author(s): Ramnik V Shah
Publisher: Ramnik V Shah Canada

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________________ The abysm of the unbodied Infinite Between the first and the last Nothingness Whose moved creative slumber kindles the suns Athwart the vain enormous trance of space. And by virtue of these qualities God is in us and everywhere in the form of the highest that is illuminating and sanctifying, yet at its some stage of latancy. In fact, the whole concept of Samyaktva which is basic to Jainism has been derived from this aspect of God both Manifest and Unmanifest Divine: the former is "Arhanta" as perfect Samyaktva in the embodied state of soul and the latter is "Siddha" as perfect Samyaktva in the unembodied or dis-embodied State. This is stated in quite a different way by yet another equally scholar scientist David Bohm of the University of London. He says. - "All things alive have in essence a harmony as is harmony the essence of the non-obstructed indivisible flowing movement of the implicate Order of which 'things are but the articulate manifestation. All is flux and motion. The dynamism is primary. The implicate flowing wholeness is unanalysable and indivisible. Since pure flow and movement are imperfect in living organisms (breakdowns do occur), the harmony is imperfect. Things go wrong. The result is a break in harmony. All living organism change and die, only in essence they are permanent." Also listen to what the latest and the most revered mystic of the Orient The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India has to say: "Buddha reproached the Manifestation with its impermanence; for him perfection and permanence were one and the same thing. In his contact with the Manifested Universe he observed a perpetual change. Therefore he concluded that the Manifested World was imperfect and must disappear. Since change does not exist in the Unmanifest, the Unmanifest is the true Divine. Upon regarding and concentrating on this point I saw that in effect his observation is correct; the Manifestation is absolutely impermanent; it is a perpetual transformation. The world is in a perpetual change 21

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