________________
20
THIRD LECTURE
Each state of the soul had a beginning (taat is, any one given particular state, it was always in the part combined with karma, but its combination with any particularly mentioned or given karma at & particularly mentioned time this particular state bad its beginning); but the soul itself, which is the subject of these states, had no beginning. There never was a first state, in the sense of their being 10 previous one.
It is unnatural for the soul part of the compound (with anger, for instance, which is a karma) to act in an angry manner. We commonly hear it said of a person, that the acted in anger, he was not himself.
There will be a time in the future, when the soul is without karma; and once without it will always thereafter henceforth be without, perfect and liberated.
In every activity of a living being in the embodied state, there are two sides, an objective and a subjective side. In the activity of sensation, there are the two sides, the objective side and the subjective side Linternal side ), the objective organs of sensation (eyes, nose, etc.), and the subjective organs of sepsation, each having many subdivisions.
When consciousness is only representing something to itself or comparing ideas, then another instrument has to be used, and this is ‘manas' (mind),
Jain Education International
For Private & Personal Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
