Atmatatva Vichar Or Philosophy Of Soul

Author(s): Vijaylakshmansuri, Ghanshyam Joshi, Kirtivijay Gani
Publisher: Mohanlal D Mehta

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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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activity would be produced by their combination. A grain of sand does not contain oil at all so how can oil be produced from the compression of sand grains ? This is never heard o-never seen before.
If life activity is produced by the typical combination of all five elements, then it should be manifested in all creatures and animals equally: but that is not the case. This life activity is not so much manifested in creatures of four senses as it is manifested in creatures of five senses and thus lesser degree of manifestation is found in creatures with lesser number of senses.
Moreover, in human beings also, we find more or lesser range of intelligence. One may be a genius and the other would be dunce. Someone's intelligence is very sharp and the other forgets easily. Somewhere, we find smartness and sharpness and at other place remarkable stupidity. If comixture of lifeless elements like earth water etc., leads to the manifestation of life activity then the corpulent man must possess more life activity and the slim one should have lesser life activity but the result is quite otherwise. A fat fellow is lethargic and the slim one is very active and zealous.
If a typical and technical co-mixture of five elements generates life activity, then naturally the question arises as to what is the purpose of life and again if such co-mixture is the cause of life activity then the span of life of all living beings should be equal. But we know that life span of beings varies from person to person. The truth is : The cause of life activity is soul and the cause of such activity is generated in the previous births. The beings continue to live during the span acquired by them through their actions (deeds of previous births). If life span is not exhausted the creature continues to live despite its limbs affected or lost.
Even other way this theory of life activity based on combination of five elements can be proved absurd. When we state that the combination of certain elements leads to the generation of something then the said combination must invariably generate that very thing under all circumstances and everywhere. For example : Mixture of Chebulic, Myrobalan, Belleric Myrobalan, Phyllan, Thusemblica produces Trifla powder anywhere and the same is produced by anyone.
Therefore, the propounders of this theory which establishes that life-activity is generated by combination of five elements should