Jainism Not an Atheisam

Author(s): Herbert Warren
Publisher: Herbert Warren

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up of other things, and so too a soul is not made up of other things. The peculiar characteristic, consciousness, cannot be destroyed it can be obscured; the individual can but exist, he must exist in some condition or other, he has this general nature in common with all things, to exist is his very nature; so the consideration is not how to keep ourselves in existence but to keep ourselves in a desired condition. What is an ideal condition? Happiness is universally regarded as the ideal condition.
So whatever real thing we take to talk about, it will con-sist of one, or more, of these six real things, matter, spirit,. space, those two ethers and figuratively time, and may be regarded simply as a real thing, a lump of clay, a brass band, a nebula, a universe, anything.
Suppose we think of a band, it is a reality, one. real' thing; and each of those four definitions will apply to it. In this way of regarding it, a band is not more than one. thing. So too a man, or a cat, or a tree is one thing, one living being, not two.
Now, although a band is one thing, obviously some parts are living beings and some parts are inanimate. So a band, although it may be regarded as one band, is nevertheless viewable as a duality; a band is something, and also it is some things namely:-things anmiate and things. inanimate, men and instruments.
In the case of a band this composite nature is very palpable. In the case of a man, however, who also is composite, it is not so palpable. Man is composed of body and soul, matter and spirit; so, although a man is oneman, he is two substances, viz :-the conscious substance, and the visible substance, combined.
To sum up, we go on unifying things until we have unified everything in the universe. Just as we unify such!
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