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PSYCHIC COLOURS (LEŚYA) : PHILOSOPHICAL VERSION
Microcosm of Psychic Action
A living organism is a compound of two elementsa non-material conscious element called 'Psyche' or soul, and a material element called body. This is the view of spiritualistic philosophy. On the other hand, the non-spiritualists or the materialists do not accept the separate independent existence of soul. The spiritualists believe in fundamentally separate existence of the two elements, and in particular, the eternal and indestructible nature of the soul.
To comprehend the spiritualists' view, one has to go far beyond the gross physical body. Whereas the materialists' comprehension of the organism is circumscribed by the limits of the gross body, sense-organs and brain, the spiritualists' view extends further and adds a subtle taijusa sarira, a more subtle karma suriru, conscious mind (citta), psychical expression (adhyavasāya) and finally the psyche or the soul itself as
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