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I entered the world, married, reared up children, encountered and fought many a life's battle, suffered pain, misery and sickness, overcame many hurdles, experienced success and failures, adopted various means to push through the dark, murky, misty and materialistic atmosphere of this worldly existence. But then suddenly a time is bound to come when I will have to say good-bye to it all - and all of it will be obliterated in the hands of time. All in vain. All without purpose, If so, why? These and other questions of this type have always troubled the mind of the man.
To understand the secret which may answer these questions, to know how the whole mechanism of the Unive works, to apprehend the cosmic spell, and to break through the outward layers of the tangible and visible forces of cosmos, a pursuit of intelligent, intangible and emotional stratifications of psyche is needed. That is the final goal of human life and that is the pursuit of an Indian philosophical school called Jainism.
It is necessary to study these questions as well as answers provided to them in the context of some basic principles, ontological concepts and metaphysical deductions of Jaina philosophy, purely analytical in character and logical in its approach, though not properly understood in the West.
Most of the basic principles, on which the whole edifice of Jaina Philosophy is constructed, are now corroborated by modern science and psychological analysis. Here is an attempt to find how this is true. Modern science has revealed that every substance is made of atoms and every atom, when split and analysed, reveals the energetic interplay of electroos, protons and neutrons in its nucleus. It is this energy which can supply motion and can work wonders.
Jainism recognises this fact while analysing the Universe and maintains that the whole Universe can be broadly divided into two categories, viz., Jiva and Ajiva, meaning motivating
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