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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
is the manifestation of the forms of this Immortality bye-product of matter and material forces long to the revealing as these do in the phenomenon of
does not be.
Soul but to
the done.
Deed consciousness which is otherwise called by
the name of soul or atman. Just as lightning flashes across the horizon from the action and interaction of the stored-up energies and powers in the etherial space of the sky, so the consciousness flashes across the so-called mental horizon wherein matter and material energies are stored up in their most subtle character. Such being the attitude of mind of the followers of the system of Charvaka philosophy towards the soul, they say it is not the soul that is immortal; but the deeds done by the mighty minds that are imperishable and immortal. In the moral as well as in physical world, the great ones only immortalise themselves by their great achievements, but their souls die and cease to be with them at the death and dissolution of the organisms wherein they appear to be encased as it were.
This denial by the Charvakas of the different entity and immortality of the soul
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