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by admitting the super-material reality of the Jiva and by attributing real existence to it.
JAINA ARGUMENTS
In criticism of the Kṣanika (momentary) doctrine of the Buddhist thinkers, the Jaina's point out that Smrti or Recollection is impossible, if the soul be denied. Sensations, according to the Buddhists are absolutely self-identical or particularistic (Svalakṣaṇa), so that if it were possible for one such sensation to revive another, it should also be possible for the perceptions of one man to be recollected by another man. The Buddhists no doubt urge here that Recollection is possible only where the reviving sensation and the revived sensation are causally connected and thus belong to the one and the same series or Santana. But the Jaina's contend that since according to the Buddhists themselves, the Sensations are Svalakṣaṇa or absolutely different from each other they cannot urge that one sensation can in any way revive another. Besides, there is no rule that where the two ideas are causally related, one must revive the other, and that where the two ideas are not causally related, one cannot revive the other. Further, the Jaina's point out that if Sensations be absolutely selfidentical and there be no Soul underlying, connecting and persisting in and through them, two fallacies viz:-'Fruition of what was not done' (Akṛitābhyāgama) and ‘Annihilation of what was done' (Krtaprāṇāśa) become irresistible. Worship of the shrine is a pious act, according to the Buddhists and they say that one, worshipping the shrine, gets Happiness as the effect of his pious act. Now, the cognition that worshipped the shrine perishes, for all sensations are momentary, according to the Buddhists; the question then is, Who or what is it that enjoys the fruits of the shrineworship? This is Krtaprāṇāśa or annihilation of what is done. On the other hand, the cognition consisting in the enjoyment of the alleged happy effect of the shrine-worship, is in no way connected with the cognition of the shrineworship itself; how then can it be said to enjoy the fruit
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