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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same of which memory images are composed, and rationalism refuses to believe that it can be produced from nothing.
Besides, if that were so, every soul would have the power to create matter from nothing, which, however, is not the position of the theologian. Thus, the statement that the material of the world was created from nothing is not philosophically true in any sense.
We may now pass on to a consideration of the nature of differences about the
RECONCILIATION.
Soul.
It is generally accepted by religion that there is an immortal essence behind every form of life which is the centre and source of the activities of living beings. We have fully examined the nature of this immortal essence already in the earlier chapters of this book, and, therefore, need only concern ourselves here with the question, what is meant by it in the different schools of religious philosophy.
The reader is already familiar with the Advaitist's view according to which the one Brahman is the only realityand all else an illusion; but Sankhya defines the soul as an 'Absolute, all-pervading, unlimited, immaterial, quality-less intelligence, free by nature, and a spectator.' By the use of the term immaterial Kapila does not mean that the soul is devoid of substantiveness altogether, but only that it is not a product of matter, as materialism takes it to be. Nyaya considers the soul to be the ruler of the senses and body, and an all-pervading, active agent.
Other systems of Hindu philosophy give more or less the same definition of the soul, and consider its nature to
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