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

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________________ speech and action are an inseparable unity in the Divine Being. The Hebrew language and its characters correspond mostly to the things that they designate and thus holy thoughts, Hebrew language and its reduction to writing forms a unity which produces a creative effect. More simply put, the letters of the lunguage whether written or spoken are elements of a potential power which brings into exsistence the very thing they represent. They are integral units of cosmic or divine energy. With similar ideas about Sanskrit and Prakrit languages, their alphabets, their sound structures and basic vedantin philosophy of single 'Brahma' from whom everything has been manufest; the question does arise whether or not both streams had a joining link. Take Egyptian Amenhotep IV who during his life of only 17 years re-placed many prevailing Egyptian cults by attempting to unify one religion with his favourite pronuziamento of the disc of the sun- the sun god and his worship. This was the time in India when Vedas were always chanted as a matter of daily occurance and the famous Gayatri Mantra of Rishi Vishwamitra was the life blood of the enlightened ones: ॐ भूर्भुवः स्वः तत्सवितुवरेण्यं भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि धियो योनः प्रचोदयात् । translated this will mean, I meditate upon that Divine who resides in the Sun who in turn by his light and power enlivens and brightens the world, the midworld and the upper world. May this Divine entering into my being also illumine me and my intelligence. Let us see Confucius of the 7th century B.C, in China who preached his five fundamental concepts. The first concept of correspondence of ranks with responsibilities or words with deeds or names with actualities was totally and only relevant to the feudalistic politics prevailing in China then. But the rest of the concepts viz that of "mean", "the golden mean" emphacising moderate and balanced behaviour; "the heaven" emphacising the existence of a Supreme Being ruling the universe yet leaving His

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