Treatise on Jainism

Author(s): Jayantibhai S Sanghvi
Publisher: S J Sanghvi

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A Treatise on Jainism
highest magnifying microscope. It eludes all efforts of the Chemist and the Physicist to calculate, measure, graph, photograph, utilise, harness or control it. It is millions of times finer and subtler than the waves of sound, light, or electricity, or the electrons, protons, conceived by man. And yet this matter is ever and anon surrounding us on all sides, and premeating through and through every particle of our body and soul. here is no space where it is not. And it is perceivable, appreciable, knowable by the Omniscients; and its workings, metamorphoses, make-ups and changes are explained by Acharyas, who have heard the letter-less Voice of the Omniscient, and who have transmitted the knowledge thus directly acquired from the Omniscient to others through the past milleniums, by word, and in writings.
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Karma is the cause, the first the ultimate, the original cause which keeps the universe going. All phenomina, all changes, all manifestations are due to Karmic effects. And Jain Saints, the Masters of Wisdom, have analysed the workings of Karma in the most minutest details in the Jain Shastras.