Vaishali Institute Research Bulletin 1

Author(s): Nathmal Tatia
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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with the so-called good acts at the mundane level of existence. And this is more or less true of very many schools of Indian thought.
This trend of thought in Indian philosophy, particularly in Jainism and early Buddhism, has led the thinkers like Dr. Schweitzer and others dub our thought and culture as pessimistic in outlook. But in this crisis of thought and challenge of the modern scientific age, we could fruitfully look back to the maxim of the Bhagvaadgita :
संन्यासः कर्मयोगश्च निःश्रेयसकरावभौ।
तयोस्तुकर्मसंन्यासात्कर्मयोगो विशिष्यते ।। Which exhorts us to eschew the fruits of karman rather than the karman itself and thus saves our thought from the otherwise inductable trend of pessimism.