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## Self-Time Statement of Authority
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The ability to perceive is acquired. In such a situation, the consciousness of the body, which is born from the community of the five elements, will be potentially of five types.
If each element is considered to be unconscious, then a difficulty arises - how can the quality that is not present in any one of the five be obtained in their community? Just as oil is not produced from grains of sand. Just as there is no oil in a single grain of sand, so there cannot be oil in many grains of sand combined.
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It is also not reasonable to say, as the Charvaka said, that the intoxicating power of intoxication is produced when they are combined, even though it is not present in each part of the liquor, because the intoxicating power of intoxication is present in some form in the ferment, etc. The ferment has the power to quench or remove hunger. Its consumption causes dizziness in the head. Water has the power to quench thirst. Therefore, the intoxication that resides in liquor does not come from outside. If it is assumed that there is no consciousness in any of the five elements, then the analogy and the example do not prove to be similar. The meaning of analogy is to present a subject by way of example. The meaning of example is the event mentioned in the example. If there is no consciousness in the analogy and it is mentioned in the example, then they do not occur together - they are opposite. If the elements are accepted as conscious, then the state of death cannot arise. Even in a dead body, the existence of earth, etc. elements remains. If you say that this does not happen because there is a lack of air and fire in the dead body, therefore death occurs, then saying so is merely the ravings of an uneducated, ignorant man, because swelling is found in the dead body - swelling is caused by air, therefore the lack of air in the dead body cannot be considered. There is also the function of fire in that body, which is of the nature of digestion or digestion, because pus or pus is produced in it. Therefore, the non-existence of fire in it cannot be considered. If you say that such air, which is subtle, such fire, which is subtle, which has the power to sustain life, leaves the dead body, therefore death occurs. Saying so is to accept the soul or the soul by another name. Therefore, this is not a different or another device.
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Consciousness cannot be produced from the group of elements even by their combination, because if we arrange the five elements, earth, etc., in one place, make one mind, then consciousness is not available from them. If you say that consciousness is expressed only when these five elements are transformed into the form of a body, then this also does not seem right, because if a body shape is made by plastering lime, etc., on a wall, etc., then even though all the elements exist in it, only inertness - unconsciousness is available. Thus, by criticizing by analogy and difference, it is not proved that the quality called consciousness is present in the five elements. It is obtained in the body in its entirety. Due to the pervasiveness of the soul in the body, it is proved to be the quality of the soul. Leave your own philosophical principles or opinions and accept this.
As the Lokayatika has previously stated, there is no element called soul, distinct from the elements of earth, etc., because no evidence of that soul is found.
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