Refutation of Western Materialism On the basis of Jain Philosophy

Author(s): Mahendrakumar Muni Dwitiya
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congenial for sustenance and growth of living organisms. Hence, the earth would have remained devoid of living beings. Later on, when as a result of the natural precesses, the yonis would have been formed and also, the environment would have become amicable for sustaining life, the souls (already existing in other parts of the universe) would have started to take birth in the yonis and thus would have begun "life" on the earth. Thus it can be said that the assertion of the Jaina philosophy that soul and matter are two Independent susstances having beginningless existence in the universe convincingly explain the origin of life on the earth without either contradictting the scientifie facts or contravening the logical principles.
Thus, all the three arguments adduced in proof of materialism are shown to be fallacious as well as inconclusive.
Reference 1, Materialism and Empirio-criticism, p. 84. 2. Sparsa-Rasa-Gandha-Varnavan Pudgalah; Jain Siddhanta Dipika I 11. 3. Op. cit., p. 184, 4. Arch J. Bahm : Philosophy-An Introduction; Asia Publishing House, Bombay,
1964, pp. 192. 5. W. Jerusalem : An Introduction to Philosophy; Macmillan, New York, 1926. p. 142 6. Ibid; p. 142 7. Ibid., pp. 143-144. 8. The Jain philosophy, in fact, asserts that extension in space is an inherent quality
of all the realities except the space itself (i.e., the ethers, matter and soul.) 9. Op. cit. p. 145. 10. The discussion of parapsychological researches in itself is an independent subject
and is beyond the scope of the present art.cle. The reader however is referred to various books and journals published on the subject by different institutes of
parapsychology. 11. In modern science after the discovery of theory of relativity, the two separate
laws of the conservation of mass and the conservation of energy have been cong-
lomerated into a single law of the conservation of mass and energy (or mattergy). 12. W. Jerusalem, op. cit. pp. 142-143. 13. ibid; pp. 146-147. 14. Willhelm Max Wundt (1832-1920), the founder of experimental psychology and
author of Grundzugeder Physiologischen Psychologie, 15. Umaswati : Tattwarthsūtra, chapter 5. 16. W. Jarusalem, op. cit. p. 143.
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