Jainism


  • Umaswami - tatvartha sutra
  • Relativistic & realistic pluralism
  • Theory of Reality;
  • Anekantvada - th of maniness of reality, metaphysics
    • Ult reality is complex & have multiple aspects
    • Dravya have infinite attributes & modes
    • Guna Paryaya vada dravyam
    • Finite bonded being can only have partial knowledge
    • All our know is relative , partial & subj. to POV naya
  • Utpada vyaya dravya samyuktam sat
    • Ekantvada - Abs assertion on 1 aspect
    • Nayabhasa-
    • Vedānta, "recognizes substances but not process",
    • Buddhism, "recognizes process but not substance".
    • Jainism, pays equal attention to both substance (dravya) and process (paryaya)
    • Reconcile Buddhist ksanikvada & vedantin nityavada
    • Intellectual ahimsha , religious pluralism, Catholic , Reconciler
    • Sat- asad karyavada
  • Criticism
    • Shankara- Biased against abs, Half- heartedly accepted in kaivalya gyan
    • W/o abs , relative can't subsist - syadvada , anekantvada bcom relative i.e syad anekantvada, syad syadvada
    • Accept 6 substance doesn't reconciled them
    • Medieval era Jain logician Akalanka - dubiety, contradiction, lack of conformity of bases (vaiyadhi karanya), joint fault, infinite regress, intermixture and absence
    • Shankra - virodha (contradictions) and samsaya (dubiety), neither of which it is able to reconcile with objectivity
    • Dharmakirti - With the differentiation removed, all things have dual nature. Then, if somebody is implored to eat curd, then why he does not eat camel?"
  • 6 Dravya -substance
    • Jiva -consc  QQ monads - Tras -mobile, Sthavar- immobile
    • Pudgal - Matter 
    • dharma - the principle of motion - water
    • adharma - principle of rest - tree
    • akash - Space , Lokakasha - empirical , Alokakasha- transcend
    • Kaal- Time, Emprical ,
  • Saptabhanginaya;
    • 7 fold judgment
    • Naya to become praman must be qualified with syat 'relatively speaking', not probably
    • Syadvada - theory of the relativity of know, epistemology
    • Conditioned viewpoint, Conditioned predication
    • Ignorance--> Kasaya --> Jnanavarni Karma
    • 7 blind and elephant analogy
    • Two sides of the same coin
    • Syat relative to own substance(dravya), place (kṣetra), time (kāla), and being (bhāva)
    • Nayavada - Partial viewpoint
    • Syat asti , syad nasti , syad avyaktvam , syat asti nasti
  • Criticism
    • Asti & nasti from different POV not contradictory,
    • Not probability Relative POV
    • Buddhist chatushkoti vinirmukta
    • Shankara - like pearls but not synthesized, relative need thread abs.
  • PIT- `
    • mati sensory 
    • shrut scriptual 
    • avadhi Clairvoyance 
    • manaparya Telepathy 
    • kaival omni
  •  Avyatvam - Philosophical significance, don't always have answer
  • Durniti - naya as praman
  • Samantabhadra's text Āptamīmāṁsā - "Syādvāda, the doctrine of conditional predications, and kevalajñāna (omniscience), are both illuminators of the substances of reality. The difference between the two is that while kevalajñāna illumines directly, syādvāda illumines indirectly

  • Bondage and Liberation.
    • Umaswami - tatvartha sutra
    • 7 Tatva - realities?
    • Jiva - ignorance - kasaya- loose faith in the teaching of Tirthankara
    • Ajiva - Subtle Karma Pudgal attaches to Jiva obscuring Power,Knowledge,Bliss,F
    • Ashrava - attraction of karma - mana, vachan , kaya
    • Bandh -attachement -
    • Samvar - Stoppage of attraction - pancha mahvrat - asetya, ahimsha, satya, Brahmcharya & aparigraha
    • Nirjara - removal of  karma - taap
    • Moskha - anatha chatustya ~ power , know, bliss , faith
  • Ghatiya Karma - Soul Harming - sayoga kevali
    • Jnana - avarniya - Know obscuring
    • Darshana -avarniya - Faith obscuring
    • Mohaniya - delusion
    • Antraya - Obstruction creating
  • Aghatiya Karma - Non-soul harming
    • Vedaniya - feeling producing
    • Naam -determine material body
    • Ayu - determine life & age out of 4 category- Human, Animal, Hell, Heaven 
    • Gotra - status ascribing 
  • 14 gunasthan - 13th - sayogi kevali , 14th aayogi kevali


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