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simply man.'
the
AN EPITOME OF JIANISM. formation of the tongue. So the ear, the nose
etc, can like wise be traced to the thought'The will is currents for hearing music, for smelling
fragrance and the like respectively. Every bodily structure corresponds to each set of thought-currents called, upånga-nama karma of the jiva to which it belongs. So is the case with the human organisms in general. Human organism, to speak more pointedly, is but the objectification in a gross form of the human action-currents of will and thought. Kant, the great German philosopher, says of man that "his will' is his 'proper self.” "The will is simply the man,” says T. H. Green. “Any act of will is the expression of the man as he, at the time, is. The motive issuing in his act, the object of his will, the idea, which for the time he sets himself to realise, are but the same thing in different words. Each is the reflex of what for the time, as at once feeling, desiring and thinking the man is .....” Man is thus but a visible expression of his will which is equal to and indistinguishable from his thoughtactivities. But will and thought, simply as they are in themselves, are mere abstractions,
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