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118 rican physician Holmes throws light upon human body as follows, "A few gallons of water, a few pounds of carbon and lime, some cubic feet of air, an ounce or two of phosphorous, a few drams of iron, a lash of common salt, a pinch or two of sulphur, a grain or more of each of several hardly essential ingredients and we have man." This material man has been further explained thus, "93% of the weight of the body is made up of three elementsoxygen, carbon and hydrogen; nearly six per cent nitrogen, calcium and phosphorous and the rest of traces, but very important traces of various minerals and salts among which iron and iodine are the most necessary."
Tirthankara Mahavira has advised us not to be body-minded, but we should try to think of the Kingdom of Heaven hidden within. We must understand this Central truth about the Self. Acharya Kundakunda says : “Absolutely pure, having the nature of perception and knowledge, always noncorporeal, I am indeed unique. Hence not even an atom of alien things, whatsoever ( whether living or non-living) is related to me...as mine."
The spiritual-man is adorned with the above central truth. The knowledge of the soul together with its attributes is very essential to achieve everlasting peace. It frees the soul from the pangs of birth, old age, death and transmigration in the world. Vivekanand has said; “Without the knowledge of the Spirit all material knowledge is only
