Confluence of Opposites

SR No.: 006704
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain
Publication Year: 1921
Total Pages: 422
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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SCIENCE
in our conception of time, past, present and future. But this is only possible for things that are outside the universe, that is to say, outside the possible range of existence. Hence, what never entered or enters into relations with anything else is non-existent,
We thus come back to the proposition that all things are knowable and that there are no limits to the knowing.capacity of the soul. Thus, every soul is omniscient potentially.
If you have followed me thus for you will now see more clearly than ever low absurd is the position of the materialistic philosophy which posits a consciousness that is the outcome of a rudimentary sensitiveness in an atom of matter. We know that intellectual lucidity is obtained by the removal of mental cloudiness, opacity, dullness or fog, which are conceivable in connection with a composite personality, arising from the union of more than one substances where each one tends to curtail the functions of the other. But an atomic soul is not encumbered with any such curtailing agent, because an atom is a simple indivisible thing, Hence, the fullest degree of mental lucidity should be the characteristic of the soul, on the hypothesis of its being synonymous with atomic sensitivity. This is . fatal to the hypothesis of atomic consciousness, which proceeds on the assumption of a rudimentary form of sensation in atomic malter. The hypothesis of a brain consciousness, too, fares no better with reference to the powers and faculties of the soul in respect of