Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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the soul would be unable to act through the body or to feel its affections as its own, since the warmth of actual intimacy would be lacking in both cases. In order that the soul should feel with the body, it must constantly expand with its growing size, so that at each moment of development there should be a complete harmony between the tenement and its tenant. The phenomenon of growth does not imply the plastering over of the soul with matter, nor does it resemble the occupation of a house by its lessee ; it is the result of absorption and assimilation of the necessary material by the tenant' himself. One has only to look at the process of growth and development of organic beings to be convinced of this fact. It follows, therefore, that the physical organism cannot possibly be made unless the soul itself becomes the builder thereof. The only other alternative left to deistic theology is to say that God only supervises the making of the body, but this also involves the acknowledgment of the soul's capacity to make its own body, since we cannot train stones into masons. Besides, when we look at the cases of malformation and deformity, to say nothing of those instances in which the child dies before birth, and of the inequalities of the material bodies in respect of physical and mental capacities, the conclusion that the making of the body cannot be the work of a perfect and impartial Architect becomes irresistible and unavoidable. These difficulties vanish from our path the moment we recognize the soul to be its own God, and the maker of its own body. Thus, while, on the one hand, the text of the Scripture-that God makes the body-loses not a tittle of its true, philosophical