Some Jaina Canonical Sutras c8.64

c8.64

The Jains join hands with the Buddhists in grouping Pūraṇa Kassapa’s doctrine under a kriyāvāda (Sūtrakṛtānga, I, 1. 1–13). Makkhali Gosāla is the propounder of the theory of evolution of individual things by natural transformation. What Ajita really contemplated was not to identify body with soul or matter with spirit but to point out that the particular object of experience must be somehow viewed as an indivisible whole (Sūtrakr., II, 1. 15–17) An important passage of the Sūtrakṛtānga (I, 1 13) clearly states that his was really a theory of the passivity of soul. The logical postulate of Kavandin Kātyāyana’s philosophy is no other than the Permenedian doctrine of Being. Nothing comes out of nothing (noya uppajjae asam). What is does not perish; from nothing comes nothing (sato nacci viṇāso, asato nacci sambhavo).