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Śramana, Vol. 56, No. 1-6 January-June 2005
MATHEMATICAL FORMULARY OF JINISTIC PRECEPTS
The coming century will be the century of science and technology. Only those systems will survive there, which have high scientificity involving intellectual and experimental verifications. The faith may be a secondary factor for attractions. The Jaina religion passes this test. It postulates realistic thoughts and rational behaviour. Its early texts encourage examination of religious concepts through intelligence. It encourages self-effort to make one's own destiny. It has an ideal of welfare of the self and of all the living beings. It defines religion both ways subjectively and objectively. It is that way of life, which leads to ultimate and spiritual happiness. It improves the individual, and betters the society. It has certain basic precepts on pluralistic realism, which could be expressed through easy mathematical formulae to make them scientifically verifiable.
N.L. Jain*
It is seen that simple physical laws are applicable to complex biological systems, which have made us learn about many complex phenomena of the life and the living. Why, similarly, the laws of abstract sciences like economics and psychology could not be applied to the spiritual systems? Yes, this could be done. A Jinistic formulary and graphery has been given here for understanding and, therefore, promoting the religious principles and practices of scientific basis.
Precepts: The Physical World and Spiritual World
The basic Jaina tenets regarding the cosmos are given below: 1. The Cosmos in General
The cosmos is real and eternal. It consists of conglomeration of all that exists. It functions on natural laws without any external agency. It is a non-theo-centric system.
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