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PART III
CHAPTER VI.--SYNTHESIS OR RECAPITULATION
The plan I have endeavoured to follow in this book is the procedure mentioned on pages 15-16, synstatis, analysis, and synthesis, making respectively the Parts 1, II. and ill of the book.
The Jain doctrines are summed up in nine fundamental truths; and to put together the four sections of Part II, we perhaps cannot do better than give tliese nine principles, prefaced with the two remarks that (1) reality exhibits distinct and contrary aspects, such as permanence and change, etc., (2) the whole truth about anything cannot be expressed in one predicate.
SUMMING UP
We live socially in a real and, in a sense, everlasting universe of sentient, conscious beings, (jiva) and of inanimate, insentient, unconscious things (ajiva). We attract (asrava) subtle forms of matter to ourselves, and we assimilate it (bandha); the natural qualities of the soul are thus more or less obscured, and consequent various conditions of weal (punya) and woe (papa) are experienced. We have been doing this, and suffering the consequences for ever in the past,-before birth and since, ---perpetuating our bodily existence through deaths and rebirths continually. This continual attraction and assimilation of matter generates in us energies which are not
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