Atmatatva Vichar Or Philosophy Of Soul

SR No.: 023322
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vijaylakshmansuri, Ghanshyam Joshi, Kirtivijay Gani
Publisher: Mohanlal D Mehta
Publication Year: 1963
Total Pages: 568
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 39 MB

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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
7) Lowest Anantananta. 8) Middle 9) Highest
Calculations are worked out only upto middle Anantananta and highest Anantananta is not possible.
Why Anantananta is not possible ? Let us take an example to show that Anantananta is not possible. If a man is asked to double the number one, how long he would do so ? He would do so till he lives. Suppose the man lives for crores of years, still the process of duplicating can never stop. Thus the idea of infiniteness is mentally though cognizable, remains impossible as Ananta verbally means endless.
Infinite when added to infinite becomes infinite and infinite when subtracted from infinite becomes infinite. If few lakhs of tons of water are drawn out or added to the ocean, the boundaries of ocean are not affected.
In view of the abovementioned discussion about 'numbers' let us consider the number of souls. The number of human beings in this universe is limited and the number of Gods and residents of hell is innumerable (Asamkhyata). The number of creatures is infinite (Ananta). Here by creatures, all creatures with one, two, three and four senses along with five sensed creatures on earth in water and in air are included.
Living beings with one sense have five varieties: Earth-bodied. water-bodied, light-bodied, air-bodied and vegetable-bodied.
Four varieties beginning with earth-bodied creatures have two divisions viz, minute and gross (Sukshma and Badara). Vegetation bodied ones have two divisions viz. Particular and general. The former has one soul in one body and the latter has infinite number of souls in one body. The body of this latter type is known as Nigoda. 'Particular' type is gross and 'general' type or Nigoda is minute as well as gross.
The Worshipful authors of the scriptures have said about Nigodas. "This universe comprising of fourteen kingdoms is pervaded by innumerable round-bodies. Each of such round body contains innumerable Nigodas and every Nigoda contains innumerable
souls.”