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he only admitted a continuous originating, all is transient nothing is permanent, were the last words he is said to have uttered. This idea of the transitoriness of everything existent gave rise to the later Budhist theory of the momentariness of all things, a theory which revolutionized Indian philosophy. The theory comes to this; everything exists but for a moment and is replaced in the next moment by a fac-simile of its, just as we see things move in a bioscope. What we call existence and development of a thing is but a series of successive momentary existences, I shall now try to make this strange theory more intelligible without entering into further details.
SOUL AND MATTER It is obvious that the Budhists had to deny the continuous existence of anything and they were not remis to follow up this main idea into all its logical consequences. So they denied the permanent existence of a soul and of matter. With them the belief in the permanent existence of soul is one as a principle of a Budhism of the greatest heresies. Now in all these points the Jains have just the opposite teaching. According to them the souls as well as matter are eternal
and have a permanent exitence, and this belief Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
