Jaina Gazette 1927

SR No.: 034889
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J L Jaini, Ajitprasad
Publisher: Jaina Gazettee Office
Publication Year: 1927
Total Pages: 568
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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JAINISM AND ITS POWER
115 that there are no qualifying words in this commandment to restrict the injunction to any particular class of life; but to-day we read it as if it were only said thou shalt not kill man! The higher law explains the reason why thou shalt not kill even an animal.
It is not my ambition to enter into a proof of all these statements to-day; neither would the duration of a short lecture avail me for that purpose. Still I must give you some indications which you can follow up if you be impressed with anything that I have put before you or that I am going to put before you in the remaining portion of my lecture,
As to the simplicity of the soul-substance, the following passage in MacDougal's Physiological Psychology will speak for itself:
We are compelled to admit......that the so-called Psychical elements are............ partial affections of a single substance or being and since, as we have seen, this is not any part of the : brain, is not a material substance but differs from all material substance in that while it is unitary, it is yet present, or can act or be acted upon, at many points in space simultaneously............we must regard it as an immaterial substance or being. And this being thus necessarily postulated as the ground of the unity of individual consciousness, we may call the soul of the individual."
If you now read the early Christian Fathers you will find they also taught the simplicity of the soul-substance, and a Christian Psychology (see Maher's Psychology) expressly advances arguments to prove that the soul is a simple substance and immortal by nature, since simple things are indestructible, unlike compound things that are destroyed when the parts of which they are composed fall apart.
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(To be continued.)