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THE JAINA GAZETTE is born in such and such a caste is what is forbidden by Jainism. For according to it all are Jainas who follow the path laid down by Jinas, and that is all.
“THE ATTRIBUTES OF THE SOUL."
Mr. Rikhab Dass Jain, has, in the Jaina Gazette for January, tried to answer my question that appeared in its Issue for December 1926. Apparently, the learned fleader has not troubled himself to refer to the previous issues in which the same question appeared, and his answer, in the effort at elucidation, rather creates more confusion by the contradictory assertions it contains.
Mr. Rikhab Dass says: "The intermingling of two things is not a thing or an entity, it is a combined state of those two things. It may be from eternity or some particular time, but in neither case can it be the Swabhava or the nature of the things in bondage." The wedlock of Soul and matter, whether you view it from Samanya or Visesha standpoint, even if it is not an entity but a STATE of combination, a condition of things, is, as such from eternity and Mr. Jain admits it. It may not be the Swabhava or the nature of things, according to him, but the fact is there from eternity, and should be unnatural therefore. Now this State or condition of the Soul, which has never begun, and is as old as eternity itself, is to be brought to an end somehow by a miracle, and the miracle is performed by viewing from different standpoints. How is an eternal State or a condition to be annulled ? Mr. Rikhab Dass admits that the assertion that a thing which has not begun in time can never end in time is no doubt true. But here the wedlock of Soul and matter is not a thing, but merely a State, a condition of things, and so must end in time, even if it never began in time!
It is said that “there has been no time when the Soul was not in bondage with some or the other matter." Leaving apart Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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