Pure Soul and Its Infinite Treasure

SR No.: 007661
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jayantilal Jain
Publisher: University of Madras
Publication Year: 2010
Total Pages: 283
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 6 MB

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body forgetting the real infinite treasure of the soul, but in fact, nobody ever lives in the body, he is living in ignorance and perpetual misery of this worldly existence.
26. Common, Uncommon and the CommonUncommon (Sadharan, Asadharan, Sadharan-Asadharan) - The soul possesses infinite properties but these are not alike. Some properties are common to other substances, some are not common and some are common/similar to some substances and dissimilar to some other substances.
i) Common Characteristics - Certain properties are common among the six substances in the universe, ie., these properties are found in the soul as well as in other substances such as nature of existence, nature of being substance, nature of being an object of knowledge, nature of being in continuous change, etc.
ii) Uncommon Characteristics - Those properties which are found only in a soul but do not exist in the other five substances are known as dissimilar/extraordinary/uncommon characteristics. For example, knowledge, experience of bliss/ happiness are extra-ordinary properties of a soul. Matter, space, etc., do not know about themselves or about others and cannot experience happiness. Likewise each substance will have a unique characteristic which is uncommon in other substances.
iii) Common - Uncommon Characteristics - A soul has certain properties which are similar to some properties of the other substances and dissimilar to other substances. For example, abstractness is the property of a soul and as such it cannot be seen by eyes/realised by senses. But this property of being abstract in nature is common with substances such as space, medium of motion and rest, as these substances