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The Jain Conference Herald..
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destroyed in producing it. Thus throughout all changes of form the amount of energy remains constant. Even when apparently lost, . (as the latent heat of water), it is only stored up in the shape of potential or expectant energy to re-appear sooner or later as kinetic or active energy. To sum up-there is no loss of energy as such; the total quantity of energy in the universe is the same to-day as it was in the past, and so will it remain in future-constant and immutable.”
The Man of Religion : "Thank you indeed, for your illuminating discourse. But if, as you say, material energy is a real thing incapable of annihilation, and even when seemingly lost, is only. stored up in a quiescent form to manifest itself sooner or later, can it be contended that the infinitely Subtler energy of Soul, as manifested in every mental and physical act of ours, is irre. vocably lost, leaving no trace of its existence on the Soul? Emphatically no: every operation of our mind, every idea and desire of ours, our good and bad impulses, our passion and envy, our pride and egoism, our charitable feelings and actions, in fact the whole of the experiences crowded in this short span of our life, are stored up in the form of YHTH FÅ which will be called back into activity in the fullness of time. Our future is thus bound up with our present which in its turn is regulated by our past. We have to .. bear the result of our thoughts, feelings and actions, whether good , or bad: there is no escape from it. In short, vice can no evade its due punishment than virtuc can go uprewarded."
KUMAR SING NAHAR B.A.
1Azimganj. The 10th September.
1909.
