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Finally, under the heading of "Seven kinds of Soul", I may mention the Jaina philosophy of non-absolutism or syādvāda, Syāt in the word syādvāda means “may be". The real sense of the compound word syādyāda can, therefore, be said to be objective realism-viewing things under their diverse aspects by a multiple or many-sided vision. The Jaina philosophers maintain that to show the relation of a substance to its attribute, no less than seven statements are necessary. What some authors describe as the "Seven kinds of Soul”, is nothing but the septuple formulation from which the jiva may be viewed.
[ October 1972 ]
128/JAINTHOLOGY
