Jainism and Modern Thought

SR No.: 011063
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: M M Shroff
Publisher: M M Shroff
Publication Year: 1956
Total Pages: 103
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 3 MB

Page 25

32
self consciousness which generates a sense of personality. An individual thus becomes a menial instrument in the hands of interested and ambitious polity of an artificial Institution known as state remaining no more a moral being gifted with a will of his own His Dharma is to obey man-tuade law and only motive is the fear of punishment in this world. His world is the world of truth deprived of all values that ennoble man in the animal kingdom.
While the established religions of the world praised, enthusiastically the life in the next world and denounced. this world as illusory. They preached obedience to God so that many men enjoy an honoured place in heaven and to sing eternally the PAIAN in praise of the Lord the Creator. Here also the fear of punishment in hades is the motive of the acts which are ritualistic and not supposed to be sufficient to please Hus grace.
According to both these thoughts the individual needs be governed by an external agency and is forced to obedience by the leas of corporal punishment. This is true as per the principle that the law of Cause and Effect regulating the blind forces of nature and physical life of man applies. equally to the human mind.
Now the third view profounded by the Jaia thinkers from time immemorial which regards the individual as a' self-conscious and self-determined huraan being, who after attaining the haman life after a long course of evolution has