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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
Now whatever might be the psychology and the fine rationale underlying the subtle differences and distinctions between these various definitions, all the schools agree to recognize it as the putting of the notion of something into something else before him which is not that thing and this is what we call Subreption (mithyatva) by which the body and soul are fused together into an identical whole from which we have the instinctive tendency to say 'I am tall and lean,' 'the child is mine' and the like in the movements of our empirical thought and life. Were it otherwise, it would have been impossible for us to be aggrieved at the loss of our dear ones or to be sorry in their sorrows and afflictions. And the sages hold that it is this bandha or combination of body and soul into an identical whole due to subreption (mithyatva) which is the primary and other secondary causes and conditions such as kashayas and the like that is the root of all our Sansår and miseries.
But still the possibilities of the bondage of the soul by subreption and the like is not
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