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JAINA GAZETTE or less clear. But upon reading in a magazine that Sir James Jean at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, in Aberdeen, said in effect that pace and time, and the physical world of substances shave no objective reality apart from the mental concepts of them, that man creates with his mind, the meaning of the Jain teaching became much more clear.
Whether Sir James Jean said it or not, the statement to my mind is not true. But what is true is that I myself have no objective reality apart from the mental concepts which I create of things. My mental concepts have no existence apart from me, but the things of which I form concepts do have an objective reality apart from these concepts. My mental concepts are factors of my being; the objective realities, body, cloth. ing, furniture, wife, children, are not factors of my being, they do not belong to me as part of my substance. My consciousness of them does belong to me as part of my being. Consciousness is a synthesis of percepts and concepts, these belong to me; the objective realities of which I am conscious do not-except of course that réality which is myself when this is the thing of which ! am conscious.
The physical world does exist, does have an objeco tive reality apart my concepts, but I myself do not; I am not the physical world which has this objective reality, therefore I am not my house and the house is not me, or 'mine' in the sense of being a factor of me.
I hope it is clear.
Note:--It is clear enough. I would wish to omit the words which I have underlined above. The simple statement of the truth is that 1, my essence, my life, the Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
