Bhagavana Mahavira

SR No.: 002027
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Chauthmal Maharaj
Publisher: Jainoday Pustak Prakashan Samiti Ratlam
Publication Year: 1942
Total Pages: 630
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Story, & Biography
File Size: 12 MB

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[ The Lord's Philosophy
varieties of the two principal ones. They are:-(i) Soul, (ii) Matter, ( iii ) Dharma, (iv) Adharma, ( v ) Space, (vi) and
time,
(i) Soul is a complex of various qualities like knowledge in sight, happiness etc. Soul has no form and physical senses of taste, smell, touch etc. Therefore it can not be comprehended by external organ of sense. Even then its existence can certainly be proved by the fact that it is comprehensible through the qualities like knowledge that can be experienced in reality. No non-living thing has the power of sight through knowledge. In such a case there must be some separate principle behind this and that is soul." I am happy, I feel sorrow." The feelings like these that one has prove conclusively the existence of the soul. Some philosophers believe that the sensation of happiness or sorrow is experienced by the body. But a little thought would prove this as false. If the body feels these sensations then a corpse must likewise be able to feel them. All the actions that go on in the living body must likewise go on in the dead. But this is not the case. This proves that the feelings of joy and sorrow are felt by something else whose existence in the body makes it living and the absence of which makes the body dead. The body is made up of the combination of non-living things and just as there is no life in a pitcher or cloth simi. larly it can not be a faculty of the body.
Suppose there is a fine building with five windows. A man sitting visible sees different things through these wind. ows. If the windows are shut he is unable to see them. But for all this we can not say that the windows themselves are able to see them. The windows are quite different from the