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JAIN PHILOSOPHY & MODERN SCIENCE permanent For example gold can be made into a pot and a croym and so many other things; but the substance gold within them all is permanent. In the same is the atom. The second substance in the formation way the substantial basic cause of this visible universe of this universe is the soul, the life or the consciousness. It too possess innumerable qualities and modes. It also undergoes the three-fold divisions of origination, decay and permanence but as the soul is the absolute opposite of matter, qualitatively nerther matter. Gita also supports the same view in the matter is changed into a soul nor a soul into following words: 'Nasato vidyate bhave, nabhavo vidyate satah'. In other words it means, that 'that which is non-existing will never originate and that which is existing will never be destroyed.' Dialectical Materialists assert that by qualitative and transformation an entirely new property is originated_a property which did not exist in that substance before, in any form or degree meaning thereby that a non-existent has come to exist So we come to the conclusion that by the qualtative transformation in matter, the nonexistent the soul (consciousness) has come into existence.
The above argument reacts favourably on the minds of modern youth and they feel that Marx has propounded a novel and wonderfully deep theory. But it does not attract the attention of deep thinkers. According to them they were churning the same sub
