Jainism Christianity and Science

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: The Indian Press Allahabad

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CHAPTER 5
KNOWLEDGE
The Jaina view of knotledge is that it is not an immaterial, airy nothing. In reality, soul and knowledge are two words for the same thing. Looked at from tlie point of view of substance, it is termed spirit or soul; looked at from the point of view of awareness' it is knowledge. It is not that knowledge resides in a part of the soul; the soul is pure intelligence and nothing but knowledge, through and through. Ideas do not exist in the soul as so many separate or separable items; they are all parts of a unified whole, inseparable, interpenetrating, intertoren. The entirety of knowledge, in plain terms, Omniscience, resides in the soulsubstance. When the causes which obstruct its manifestation in the case of the embodied soul are removed, then it actually becomes Omniscient.
The true Christian riets on this subject are as follows:
“We, however, affirm that the mind coalesces with the soul, not indeed as being distinct from it in substance, but as being its natural fonction and agent."-A.X.C.L. vol. w. p. 437.
"Ye are the light of the world."-latt. . 14.
“ In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." Colossians ü. 3.
"... the Holy Ghost ... shall teach you all things."-John siv. 26.
"For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed ; ceither hid, that shall not be known.”—Luke xii. 2.
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