Book Title: Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss
Author(s): Anantprasad Jain
Publisher: Tirthakar Mahavir Smruti Kendra Samiti Lakhnou UP
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unpolluted and without wrong prenotions one can grasp the idea by proceeding on the same rational line, wise thinking and systematic analysis, and he is sure to catch the right conception of this phenomena of attachement of matter with soul into one and the same body, shape and from as explained above. This phenomena or process of configuration has been going on since enternity with a continual change or perpetual taking in of some new Pudgala-particles coming in close contact with the existing configuration and rejecting or shedding away the liberated particles due to a continuous change caused by action and reaction and due to influences of the surrounding bodies and constant vibrations of the said configuration and its constituents the Pudgala and the matterinfested-Soul.
Soul is "non-matter” and any material or worldly example do not quite coincide or fit in or suit to make the conception quite clear. Nevertheless we shall take one such example to get a clearer view of the nature of these happenings taking place. Take a tumbler full of water; drop in it some such powder which when placed in water swells