________________
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. without beginning. And in fact it is acknowledged on all hands who has recognised the truth of the teaching that freedom consists in the realization of the self as absolutly free from what is alien to it. In other words every system of thought which finds the bondage to be due to subreption holds out the hope of liberation by the destruction of the cause of subreption by knowledge.
However it is pretty clear that each case of subreption is invariably preceeded by another subreption leaving its risiduum in the form of lesyas or tints as its consequences colouring and magnatising the soul whence its follows that the self which was the object of previous subreption becomes the integrating principle in a subsequent combination by subreption ; for in such a combination there is always presupposed a unifying principle which must refer to itself at each step it takes in the processes of combination, since without such a principle referring to itself there can be no synthesis at all.
And now the question is: what is this integrating principle? It is the liva, Jivåtman
550
