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The Jaina world of Non-living
8. It is known that the worldly living entities receive the various types of mattergies due to passions and activities according to their stage
of development.
9. The mattergic reality is not neutral or inert cause for its services like the medium of motion and rest. It is an active and prompting cause. 10. There is one more philosophical point relating to mind. Where is its location in the body? Some say it resides in the lotus- petalled heart (Buddhist, NV-School and Digambaras) while Sankhyas maintain its residence in whole of the body. Sikdar mentions that the two sects of the Jainas hold different views on this issue.
11. There is undisputed materiality in bodies, speech and respirations. However, the problem of mind has been an intriguing one. The Vaiseṣikas have non-material atomic mind different form soul. The materialist west and some Indian philosophers look the soul and mind as interchangeable terms. They were taken to be fine and material. It was presumed that soul is a subtle matter connecting mind and body. The soul was also taken to be a composite entity consisting of two parts - material and non-material. However, mind was taken to be non-material located somewhere in brain. It is now confirmed that mind is material located somewhere in brain like a hologram but moving very fast. Many of the canonical paranormal phenomena associated with soul have now been proved to be due to meditative mind. The currently material mind is very fine and it may be equivalent to a 4-touch mattergy or 8-touch mindvariform of the Jainas. It performs all functions of thinking, memorising, perception and conception etc. However, Mahendra Muni points out that there must be acceptance of soul substance to explain many other phenomena. The psychologists and neuro-physiologists indicate that consciousness is also a state of mind representing functional organisation of brain. Thus, mind and brain are two different entities, one is gross while the other is fine supposed to be composed of fine mindon entities. Of course, they are causally related and interacting with each other. This is quite in tune with Jaina theory.
The scientists will not say anything about the psychical mind which is the capacitative form (generally non-material) of physical mind.
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