Jainism and World Problems

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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JAUNISBL UW WORLD PROBLEMS
Fathers that it is a complete and systematic presentation of a whole department of scientific thought, concerned with the salvation of the soul. Many more quotations under each head are available, but I have to confine myself to the time limit for this address. I ain also abandoning many points for which there is no room at present at my disposal.
1. Immortality of the soul:
a. “Neither can they die any more" (Luke, xx. 36). b. "The soul being incorporeal is simple; since thus
it is both uncompound and indivisible into parts, It follows... that wliat is siinple is immortal...and what is subject to dissolution is compound; consequently the soul being simple and not being made up of diverse parts, but being uncompound and indissoluble, must be, in virtue of that, incorruptible and immortal " (Ante Nicene Christian
Library, xx. 115). 2. The fulness of knowledge : a. “In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and
knowledge" (Ephasians, iii. 4). b. “For there is nothing hid which shall not be
manifested ; neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad. If any man have
cars to hear, let him hear" (Mark, iv. 21—23). C. “For the knowledge of these things does not come
to it (the soul) from without but rather it sets out these things, as it were, with the adornment of
its own thoughts (Gregory Th., A.N.C.L.xx. 117.) i. Happiness is the nature of the soul : : a. “And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and
come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall Hee away" (Isaialı, XXXV, 10).