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271/ जैनों का संक्षिप्त इतिहास, दर्शन, व्यवहार एवं वैज्ञानिक आधार
In the field of soul and its great potentials science leaves us in lurch. It has yet reached the stage of knowing what is conscious, what is mind and what are its products and knowledge through it.
"yoga upyog jivesu"
['Tattavärth Suttra', by Uma Swati, verse 5:44]
Meaning thereby that this worldly soul consists not only the clay -cast mould .i.e. our body,but also has spiritual capacity to earn knowledge, self control, and right -conduct .The path to deliverance is only through amalgam of body and soul, which plays an ennobling role of its purification through pursuit of path relentlessly, as said in the first stanza of Ttattavarth -"Samayag darşan gyān caritrāni moksha marg"- right vision, faith, enlightened world view and right knowledge and lastly treading such path of shedding attachments and aversions, malice etc. leading to liberation.
It is only the soul power which can control the instincts which are like hundred-headed-hydra. Intelligence is too feeble a rider to control instincts. Soul power is fortified by long practice until emancipation Those who have practiced it like Lord Mahaveera, Buddha Christ, Kabir, and a host of suffi saints like Khawaja Mohammad Chisti etc. and others in the past and presently like Vivekanand, Srimad Raychand, Gandhiji, Tolstoy, Ruskin, Lincoln, Romainrolland,and a number of eminent jain and other acharyas etc, brought succour freedom for depraved mankind. The soul power is not an illusion like astrology. Therefore real
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