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JAINISM
AND VEDANTA
The Sources of World Philosophies Both in Ancient and Modern Time
Jainism is one of the properly organised main religions of the world. only about the two of which it cannot be said that they were founded by any individuals, Jainism and Vedanta. Judaism the religion of Jews came after and as revealed to Moses and Abraham; Zoroastrianism, the religion of Parsis, originally in Persia now called Iran came after and as revealed to Zoroaster or Jarathusta; Buddhism after Lord Gautama Buddha: Islam after the Prophet Mohammad though strangely enough it recognises the Bible as one of its holy books and Jesus as one of the main prophets of Allah, regarding Jerusalem as their holy city and both Jewish and Christian history associated with this city as also Islamic history, (it sprang out of Middle Eastern traditions of Judaism and Christianity): and lastly Christianity after Lord Christ: all originating as recorded in history between 1350 B.C., to 700 A.D., Moses around 1350 B.C., Zoroaster around the 7th century B.C., Buddha 5th and 6th century B.C., Christ around the beginning of the Christian era and Mohammad around 6th and 7th century A.D.
times What guided the peoples around Egypt since known in world's recorded history of almost 3,500 B.C. to 1,350 B.C. before Amenhotep IV came on the scene (1,375-1,358 B.C.) with his favourite cult of the Disc of the Sun, a single God against paganistic and polytheistic ideas of as many Gods as there were kings or pharohs; in China before the 6th to 4th century B.C. when Confucius (551-479 B.C.) founded his system of five fundamental concepts viz correspondence between ranks and responsibilities, the mean, the heaven, the way and the jen and Lao Tsu and Chuang Tsu first attempted to explain the universe metaphysically by Tao and in Japan before Shintoism
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