Book Title: Dravyasamgraha
Author(s): Nemichandra Acharya, Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp

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________________ Verse 8 in reality there is no separation.” The soul is inseparable from upayoga. Kalghatgi, T.G., Jaina View of Life, p. 52. Cetanā is the 'light of consciousness' Cetanā as a fundamental quality of the soul is pure consciousness, a kind of flame without smoke. This consciousness is eternal, although it gets manifested in the source of the evolutionary process of life in the empirical sense. This empirical consciousness arises from the contact of the sense organs with the objects. Cetanā in its pure form gets embodied with the Ātman and comes into contact with the empirical life, with the sense organs and objects. It manifests itself in the form of jñāna and darśana. Jñana and Darsana are, therefore, aspects of cetanā and cetanā is the springboard from which they arise. It is like the flood of light in which objects are illuminated. It is the psychic background and the psychic halo of cognition in its two aspects, jñāna and darśana. Cetanā, therefore, is the light of consciousness that the soul possesses and through this light the cognition of objects arises. Kalghatgi, T.G., Jaina View of Life, p. 75-76. The Self (jīva) and the Non-self (ajīva) From the point of view of Ontology Jaina thinkers make the self (Jīva) and the non-self (Ajīva) as two absolutely different substances. The former is conscious, incorporeal and immaterial, while the latter is unconscious, corporeal and material. Every embodied self (Samsārī Jīva) has a soul and a body. It has a gross body and a subtle body composed of infra-sensible particles of matter (karma), called kārmaņa śarīra. Both gross 25

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