I am The Soul Part 02

SR No.: 006791
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tarulatabai Mahasati
Publisher: Shri Gujarati Shwetambar Sthanakwasi Jain Association
Total Pages: 466
Language: English, Hindi
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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I am the Soul
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Indeed, the various substances that together make liquor do not seem to possess any intoxicating quality, yet that quality is produced in them when they are mixed, it remains in the form of that quality for a certain period and then dies out. Similarly although the four elements do not have any life energy in them. their coming together generates life and it dies out after a certain time.
This is the belief of the followers of Charvak. They do not believe in the presence of life in the elements. If they did, it would amount accepting the existence of an independent soul. Therefore, they say that the soul is created with the interaction of the elements and also gets destroyed.
In Atmasiddhi Shastra too, the disciple raises the same doubt, that with the interaction of the body, i.e. after the body is created a soul gets created in it and dies out after the death of the body.
But that is not the truth. Even while clarifying the doubts of Vayubhuti Ganadhara, Prabhu has said - 'If you do not believe in the presence of life energy in the elements, then even their interaction is not going to generate life. The reason why an intoxicating quality develops in the liquor that is brewed with the dhatura seed, jaggery etc., is that those ingredients which go on to make liquor also possess the intoxicating quality. We begin to feel drowsy immediately after taking rich food, what is that? That food has a certain type of intoxicant and hence it has that effect. Just as we get oil from sesame, because there is oil in every seed. Had it not been so, there would be no oil from a group of seeds too. There is no oil in a grain of sand, so whatever amount of sand you grind, no oil can be produced from it. Thus since there is no life in the elements like earth etc., there cannot be a creation of life through their interaction. Therefore, lifechaitanya is an independent substance.' This is how Prabhu Mahaveer resolved the doubt in Vayubhuti Ganadhar.
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