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this model. The present investigations have clearly shown that the nature of this entity is such that it can provide information even about the sizes of atoms and nuclei and can penetrate the spaces and time boundaries. The importance of this entity can be visualised from the problem encountered in the modern science as follows: If we try to explain everything form the point of view of matter then there arises a peculiar problem. According to the second law of the modynamics for a closed system, the entropy always increases with time and becomes maximum in the equilibrium state. If we now compare this situation with the problem of increasing amount of individuality in our social system (The Earth's ecological system can be treated as a closed system) then we can probably appreciate the importance of this supreme entity i. e. the soul.
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The Jaina's doctrine of karmas can be better appreciated if we look at the working of our brain from the following point of view. It is well known that our brain receives information through different sense-organs. This information is analysed in our brain by the past memory. Some of this information is then stored into the brain and the whole process continues. The sense-organs receive information from one's surroundings which are either dependent or independent of 'the activities of an individual. As each bit of information is generated by some activity in the material world and also since each bit of information causes some material change in our brain, matter is directly involved in the whole process. Furthermore, since adaptation is a fundamental characteristic of the biological systems, so adaptation and the resulting past memory plays a fundamental role in determining response to the new information. We feel that adaptation is very similar to the bondage of the
karmas.
Instead of assuming an abstract soul completely different from matter in a dualistic spirit, if we talk about our awareness or consciousness of the surroundings then the theory of Jainas clearly lays emphasis on the delocalisation of our awareness. Thus the separation of our soul from the matter means delocalisation of our - awareness from a fixed set of objects (matter). The renunciation of
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