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Jainism means any person who has conquered passion, and one who follows these principles is called a Jain.
This philosophy of Jainism is not a monistic theory except in the last analysis. There is nothing in the universe but substance, but there are many kinds of substances. Existence cannot be separated froni substance. We are dualists. We say there is spirit and matter, while the positivists, and monists in this country say there is but one substance. Theosophists say spirit and matter are opposite poles of the same substance. We say no; spirit can never be matter. Matter is known by the senses, spirit only by spirit. The Greeks said “Know thyself by thyself.”
The highest knowledge is that which you derive simply by the power of the soul.
Spirit is that whose attribute or differentia is consciousness; that which knows is soul; that which does not know is non-soul. People often confuse motion with life. We say these forces, such as cohesion etc. are different from life. They are concurrent things, but not the same. This consciousness appears in many forms.
We divide organic beings into five classes; those that have one sense, and those that have two, three four and five senses.
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