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JAIN LSM AND WORL]) PROBLEMS
When the word 'chocolate' is pronounced within the hearing of a person who does not understand it, there is no characteristic reaction in his organism. Let him now be told the meaning of the word, and we shall find that he reacts to the word in the same manner as he did to the thought of the sweetmeat, or the sweetmeat itself. Such paths or connections are probably made through the front portion of the brain, the cortex.
Simultaneously with the growth of the associations and inter-connections of the paths in the brain, great changes take place in the constitution of the will and personality at the back of the nerves. Personality is the systematization of the individual's likes and dislikes, ranged round the regard for the bodily self. This means that the conviction that the body is the ego is the sole cause of the growth and organization of the sentiments into personality. The pure soul has no likes and dislikes for the objects of the senses ; hence when the Right Faith is acquired by the individual, the foundation of personality is Joosened, and can never be re-established perfectly again. Right Knowledge is an ally of Right Faith, and keeps on undermining the foundation oi personality more and more every day. Right Action, or Conduct, which really consists in the withdrawal of attention from the outside world and in its being turned inside on to the Kingdom of Divinity of the Soul itself, finally, one day completely overthrows the structurepersonality and all-of the lower ego. This is Release in which all connections are broken off with the flesh. This is why it is taught in Jainism that Right Faith, Right Knowledge and Right Conduct, taken together, but not singly, constitute the path to Salvation.
The main difference between man and animal consists in respect of the power of the former to resist temptation and
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