Atma Siddhi

Author(s): Shrimad Rajchandra, J L Jaini
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram

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1. The Soul is The first proposition is of the greatest importance; as it is also of the utmost metaphysical difficulty. It is obvious, because the Soul and none else is the knower and in any form of knowledge of the Soul, the soul itself is both the subject and object of conation and knowledge. Nor is there any figure or analogy known to us which is parallel enough to illustrate or elucidate it. One of the nearest is that of the eye which is the sole seer and which sees everything else and also itself. But there it ends; for, the soul sees itself by itself; but the eye sees itself through something else, e. g., a glass or another person's eye. However, if a man wants to know the truth and not merely to gratify his vanity by seeming to win in an intellectual contest, the old eternal path of self knowledge is still open to man, although it is very rare to see and very arduous to follow
The most universal and elementary way of approaching the problem is to observe and recognise the obvious fact, that there are two distinct kinds of substances in the world. One kind are living and the other are non-living. The men and women, cows, horses, dogs, doves,
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