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JAINISM AND WORLD PROBLEMS
d. “ If therefore man has become immortal he will
also be God ... Wherefore I preach to this effect : Come, all ye kindreds of the nations to the immor
tality of the baptism" (A.N.C. Lib. ix., part 2, p. 86). 6. Soul afflicted by the pouring in of matter into it.
“ Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing : I am come in unto deep waters, where the floods overflow me” (Psalm lxix. 1 & 2). “The mental acumen of those who are in the body, seems to be blunted by the nature of corporeal matter. If, however, they are out of the body then they will altogether escape the annoyance resulting from a disturbance of that kind. ... at last by the gradual disappearance of material nature, death is both swallowed up and even at the end exterminated ... It follows that we must believe our condition at some future time to be incorporeal ... and thus it appears that then also the need of bodies will cease ... The whole nature of bodily things will be dissolved into nothing"
(A.N.C. Lib. x. 82-83). c. “... Flesh separates and limits the knowledge of
those that are spiritual ... for souls themselves by
themselves are equal” (A.N.C. Lib. xii. 362). d. “For I know that in me (that is, in my fiesh)
dwelleth no good thing" (Romans, vii. 18). 7. The body must be completely separated from the soul for salvation :
a. “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me
from the body of this death ?" (Romans, vii. 24). b. "In whom also ye are circumcised with the circum
cision made without hands, in putting off the
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