Book Title: Jambudwip Part 02
Author(s): Vardhaman Jain Pedhi
Publisher: Vardhaman Jain Pedhi

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________________ that way, separating the innumerable what is conformable to science and worlds of Possibility from the obse. mathematics which are at work everyrved one of Actuality. As Samkara where in the universe including what puts it 'The Lord' is a bank. a limi- is called 'empty space' is conformable tary support, that these worlds (the to reason and what is opposed to worlds of Possibility and that of Ac. them is opposed to reason...a matter tuality) may not be confounded....... of vital importance for rational philo. Just as a dam stems the spreading sophers to note. On such a further of water so that the boundaries of move involving tough Advaitic the (contiguous) fields are not con- metaphysics which it will take too founded, so that self (God) acts as a long to deal with here. He might be limitary dam in order that these seen to come off as being (fundaouter and inner worlds (the worlds mentally) one' with Truth, the subof possibility and that of Actuality) stratum of the universe called in may not be confounded.1. To put it Samkara Brahman'as Samkara in a much simpler language, "Take holds Him to be in his commentary away God from the universe, and on “Vedanta Sutra,” III. iii, 39. Chaos, Disorder, comes to reign with The Samkara-Vedantic Solupossibility (i. e. the possibility of tion, of the mystery; the 'soul innumerable ever-changing, disorderly in Samkara-Vedanta universes) as its prime Minister'. On a rational further move God might The Samkara-Vedantic solution be seen to emerge as the Giver to of the great problem mooted above the universe of its science and mathe by the KENA Upanishad is that there is an immaterial 'soul matics and thus the Ground of (ATreason, a corollary to which is that MAN) in men and women by which they see, hear, feel, etc. and not 1 'Samkara's Commentary on the merely by the sense organs as is Vedanta Sutras. I. iii. 16. (Italics generally thought because if that were ours.) of, also id., III, ii, 32; id., so we should not see objects in our I. i. 20, and especially Samkara's dreams when our eyes are closed. commentary on the chandogya Şamkara-Vedanta will go on to add Upanishad; VIII, iv, 1 which ma- that this soul or ATMAN is the kes to matter much clearer but same as God, strictly speaking Truth which is too long to be reprod- (NIRGUNA BRAHMAN) with which uced in an article of this length. God is, according to Samkara, (funda Jain Education International For Personal & Private Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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