I am The Soul Part 02

Author(s): Tarulatabai Mahasati
Publisher: Shri Gujarati Shwetambar Sthanakwasi Jain Association

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I am the Soul also accepts that in the universe matter is indestructible. Animate and inanimate both are in the form of energy. Their existence in Nature is as self, naturally. Both those energies undergo modifications, but they are never totally destroyed nor can be created new.
We can be responsible for the changing of the form of the inanimate, but we cannot create the inanimate in its basic form. Just as a cotton fabric - first it was in the form of a plant; cotton was derived from its fruit, out of that the yarn and from that came the cloth. If somebody were to call our clothes as a plant, it would sound very amusing. But truly its first form was a plant and now it has changed form to cloth. So we were able to change its form but we have not been able to create the atom.
Therefore, there cannot be animate created from inanimate and vice versa. Both substances have an independent existence and it is prepared to remain so always. Now further establishing the eternal nature of the asanyogi atma, with more arguments, the Gurudev says -
कोई संयोगोथी नहीं, जेनी उत्पत्ति थाय;
ETT TT sui, asit FARE HERE .....8€ Body is created out of interactive substances - sanyogi padartha. The atma develops the body by absorbing infinite groups of atoms. Later too, to maintain this body, it keeps absorbing more atoms through food and through the follicles on the body. Thus body and such substances are created out of the sanyogs - interactions. But the life force - the chaitanya atma is not born out of any such interaction. This has been told in these gathas.
As a rule, what is created can be destroyed. What cannot be created cannot be destroyed either. We have seen the creation and destruction of things visible to our eyes. However strong a thing may be it does get transformed after some time. If it is