Atma Dharma

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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( 19 ) to any other. The soul is also endowed with both these kinds of qualities. The six general qualities which it enjoys in common with matter and other existing substances are : existence, function, knowability, form and the attribute of being the abode of changing accidents or states. To these is to be added the general property which maintains all substances in their own nature and prevents their becoming transforraed into one another. This may be called the attribute of non-transformability. The special qualities of the soul are consciousness, joy, will, faith and conduct, since none of them is found in any other substance. Every soul is independent of every thing else with reference to these qualities, which is tantamount to saying, that it has them all within its own self and has not to seek them outside its own being. Neither is the supply thereof liable to be exhausted, because a substance and its attributes are eternal and inseparable † from one another, though
* Cf. " That which exists by itself is never destroyed; the non-existent is never produced ; what is a thing in itself always persists in its own attributes, sabject to origination, destruction and continuation at one and the same time."-- Kundkundáchârya.
Cf. “ There is no substance devoid of attributes ; attribates must reside in substances ; for this reason there is no real distinction between a substance and its attributes.". Kundkundáchârya.