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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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
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.conception of Divinity. And this is the literal verification of the old Biblical text, " the stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner" (Ps, CXVIII. 22; Matt. XXI. 42). Verily, the soul which the materialists (builders-philosophers) rejected bas turned out to be the "head of the corner," endowed with all divine attributes and perfections ! These divine attri. butes are not enjoyed by the soul now because they are vitiated and neutralised by certain forces operating on the soul-substance, so that they cannot come into manifestation till they are set free from the dominion of these defiling, neutralising agents.
As said in the Jaina Theory of Karma (See Indian Philos. Rev. Vol. III. P. 153), the soul is a reincarnat. ing ego which passes from life to life in an unbroken succession, till nirvana be attained. This is evident from the fact that the soul is immortal by nature, so that it must have had a past, however much it might be ignorant of it in its present incarnation. The nature of memory of the causes that obstruct it and of the process of its recovery have been explained in the Key of Knowledge to which you are referred for further enlightenment on the point. But when even the events of a few moments back are forgotten and cannot be recalled by us, what is there surprising in our inability to recollect anything of a past which has since been followed by wholesale cataclysmic changes in our being? Immortal by nature, the soul must have been in