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of man is of only physical man, which cannot represent man's that aspect which is beyond senses or intellect.
Now, it is clear that, according to Radhakrishnan, there are two aspects of man--one that leads scientists to describe man in his own scientific way, and the other that transcends the capacity of scientific analysis. It is not proper to characterise man as a combination of mind and body. It is better to call these two aspects as the finite and infinite aspects of man. The finite aspects are, by and large, aspects of the bodily, but even the bodily aspects of man give the evidence of the presence of spirituality in them. Dr. Radhakrishnan uses the word "soul" in a very wide sense, so much so that even bodily activities that have a tendency towards selftranscendence are described as soul-activities.
In order to understand the conception of soul, we have to take into account certain facts that are peculiar 10 man only and on account of which souls are to be distinguished from other aspects of nature. One very significant fact about the activities of man is that unlike other aspects of Nature, man is not wholly determined in terms of his class characters. If one knows the class-characters of a plant, one can claim to have known it. But in the case of man, that is not so. Classcharacters have their own importance, but individual characters are equally important. It is in this sense that man is described as unique. Radhakrishnan, more or less like Tagore, conceives that no account of the nature of the soul can afford to overlook the uniqueness of every individual.
There is the other peculiarity which is present in all kinds of soul activities. Man, unlike other aspects of Nature, has the capacity to reflect and to plan his moves. He cannot act blindly. In other words, man bas the capacity to look ahead. This is, what Dr. Radhakrishnan means by the expression 'self-transcendence'. This, according to Radhakrishnan is the very significant aspect of the soul's activity.
The self, according to Radhakrishnan, is an organised whole. It is not a simple, unitary. Just as an atom, life, consciousness and self-consciousness are not simple and unitary, but are organised whole or composite beings. In the words of Radhakrishnan, “Thc self is a unity of diverse parts
