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seem to embody the history of evolutionary processes are really caused by the different types of its vibrations, the higher involving all the lower ones within them, so that where vibratory energy is weak and stops short at the lowest stage an ameba will be formed, and on the highest rung a man. Reptiles, birds and mammals, all, thus, indicate only one fact, namely, the difference in the organising energy's sustentation, the higher stages being reached only after the lower ones have been touched. It seems to me that the facts are not capable of yielding the inference which has been drawn from them to bolster up the Darwinian theory, but support the view which has been enunciated here. The differences themselves arise from and are bound up in the quality and quantity of matter in union with the soul and are engendered by karmas.
Science also imagines that it has actually witnessed the phenomenon of the splitting up of consciousness. This must be a pure delusion. For crushed, mutilated, cut-off or split-up consciousness can only be non-sense; it cannot be that you can split up or destroy consciousness and still have it intact. Religion explains the phenomenon of the 80-called splitting up of consciousness by pointing to the existence of group-souls in certain low forms of organisms, 80 that when those organisms are cut up or split spontaneously, it is not the cutting up of a single soul into two, but some souls continue in both the parts, and explain the puzzling phenomenon by accounting for the consciousness in the two parts.
But is the Jaina. culture suitable for the modern world? Most certainly it is; the Jaina culture has always
