Atma Siddhi

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

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doubter, thinker or knower and that is the soul. This was treated classically by Rene Descartes in his famous “Cogito, ergo sum" I think, therefore I am.
Doubt 2. What we call soul may really be a result of combination of matter of various kinds ?
This is partly true. For the body, the senses, the speech, and the mind also are matter of various grades of fineness. But yet the phenomena of consciousness, attention, and knowledge are entirely immaterial. Matter cannot explain them. No one can ever achieve them by means of matter. Thus both positive and negative considerations remove this doubt easily
II. The Soul is Eternal. This is strictly true only of the Liberated soul, the Siddha. It is true of the embodied, mundane (Samsari) soul also in the sense that it is unkillable and remains the same throughout its journey to the end, if there is an end of the cycle of worldly existences for it.
Two considerations establish this. As you Sow, so you reap. Every cause expends itself fully in its appropriate effect. Every act, every
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