Traverses on Less Trodden Path of Indian Philosophy and Religion

Author(s): Yajneshwar S Shastri
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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produced from anything, cloth could have been producod from clay; jar could have been produced from threads and so on. But Asatkāryavādins, 50 on the other hand argue that if an effect is already existent in its cause There is no need to attempt for its production. Besides, if effect is already existent in its cause, it should be seen there and the same purpose could have been served by cause and effect. Jains on the basis of their notion of substance reconcile the truth in both these views and state that cause and effect are partly identical and partly distinct and therefore, an effect is partly existent in its cause and partly non-existent, 51 A particular cause has a power or potency (Sakti) to produce a particular effect and thus an effect is existent in its cause in the form of this potency. But an effect is a new subtance so far as its form is concerned and thus with reference to its form it is non-existent in its cause. A jar, for example is existent in its cause, the lump of caly, so far its matter clay is concerned, but it is non-existent there in the shape of the jar. This view is very near to Sinkhya but, the only difference between them, appears to be that Sankhya is not prepared to admit this manifestation as sometbiog Dewly emergent while Jains do. Thirdly, definition of reality became a basis for Jain's famous synthetic philosophical doctrine of Anekāntavādaa theory of many-sidedness of reality, wbich consists of dual doctrine viz., Nayavāda in wbich views of different philosophical systems are individually accommodated and syadvāda (philosophy of relativism) which reconciles all of them giving complete picture of reality. 82
lo this way, this definition of reality (sat) became an all-embracing principle in Jain's pbilosophical literature.
30. Causation in Indian Philosophy-Bharatiya M. C.. Pub. Vimal Prakashan, Ghaziabad,
(U.P.), 1973, pp. 242 254. 31, Sanmatitarka-1-27, pp. 29-30. 32Please refer to first paper of this book.