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lived from time without beginning in some embodied state, evolving from the lower to the higher condition through the law of Karma, or cause and effect; that so long as the Karmas, (forces generated in previous lives) have not been fully worked out, it has, after physical death, to forui another body, uutil through evolutionary processes it unfolds its absolute purity. Its full perfection is then manifested. This perfection of the inviduality is the Jain Nirvana or Mukti, The individuality is not merged into anything; neither is it annibilated. The process of this development, or salvation, may be said simply to consist in right realization, right knowledge, and right life, the details of which are many.
I will now say a few words about Jain Psychology. There are five Gateways of Knowledge, all unfolding through the laws of evolution and Karma. The first is the senses. In the lowest from of life, there is only one sense that of touch. In higher forms of life, there are two, three, four, and ( as in animals, birds, fish and men ) five senses. Through the senses a limited form of knowledge is unfolded. The second source is study and reading. The third is Avadhi, or the psychic faculty, through which finer and more subtle things are known. The fourth is inind-knowing, by which the mental processess of others
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