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
Due to such belief of Charvak, there are many people even today who believe that the foetus in the womb of a mother does not have life till it is three months, only later does life come in. This a very wrong notion. If there were no life in the foetus it would not grow at all. Where there is growth there is life. At the very beginning there is the arrival of life and then begins the shaping up of the body. The moment the jiva arrives in the mother's womb, it attracts the atoms and gets busy in making up the body. Therefore, even in a three month old foetus there is jiva - life.
So first there is jiva and then the creation of the body. The theories of the Charvak philosophy appear to be playing in the mind of the disciple. Hence he is not willing to believe this and says that the atma is created with the body and gets extinguished with the body's death.
There is also another doubt about the eternity of the atma. That is -
अथवा वस्तु क्षणिक छे, क्षणे क्षणे पलटाय; ए अनुभवथी पण नहीं, आत्मा नित्य जणाय
Under the influence of the Buddhist philosophy, the disciple is willing to believe that along other things atma is also momentary. He says that all the things in the world are momentary and we see them changing every moment. Thus atma too has to get destructed every moment. Hence atma cannot be eternal.
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Every substance is undergoing a change, call it a state - з - or an alternate - - One is sthoola paryaya - - i.e. a macro alternate and the other is a sookshma paryaya - सूक्ष्म पर्याय - i.e the micro alternate. In the affected dispositional form the atma is in the human body which is a sthoola paryaya - something which will remain in human form for a given number of years. The change in the state of the body that is occurring every