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mam SIX DRAVYASI
- Byo (K. B. Jinara ja Hegde, B. Sc., LL. B., M. L. A.)
According to Jain Metaphysics identified. Taking this to be true there are only six elements in the how was it possible for the girl to Universe. By the word element relate any thing of her past life
nean a thing which cannot be unless that there was something further divided or destroyed or common and continuing conscious added to or subtracted from. They Clement in her between her are independent things. And what present and past life. And it is ever one sees in this universe are this common element Jainism calls either chemical compounds or as Atma or Jiva which is indestructmixtures of all or some of these sisible. A similar case was reportal dravyas.
from Jhansi in Hindustan times in They are (11JIVA(2P'UDGAL
its issue dated 16/9/1938. (3) DHARMA (4) ADILARMA ) KALA & (6) AKASA.
2. PUDGALA l'
ugala is matter, it is a sub1. JIVA
stance which could be percieved Jiva is Atma, a conscious element unlike Atina by all the five or by which we see in human beings. any one of the senses. Pudgala is animals, plants and trees. The common and indestructible: proof of the existence of this Atma element that is present in all subin the Universe consists more in stances like carth, wood, human the experience of people who have body. metal, air. gas, water. tire. genuinely felt of its existence than light, sound, lectricity, s-ray etc. in several arguments that are in this connection it must be sail advanced. I will only attempt to that the element' once thought by draw an inference of its existence. the scientists as final indestructible Many people must have heard of substance is no more found to be some people stating the experience true. Every element known to of their previous life. Recently chemistry is no more a final thing there was a case of a girl near that cannot be further divided or about Delhi which was reported destroyed. It is found hy scientists in the papers, who suddenly started that every atom of an element relating the scenes of her past life consists of two or more packets of and even named her relations in forces (Shakti) which they have her past life. whom later on she called proton and electron identiti
