Book Title: Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss
Author(s): Anantprasad Jain
Publisher: Tirthakar Mahavir Smruti Kendra Samiti Lakhnou UP
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Part III
(We, now, come to the subject,"How does the Pudgala affect the Atman ? The subject is very vast and most of its aspects have been most eleborately dealt with in all Jain Canonical Books. I will take up here, in short, only one of its aspects, in a modern scientific light, which arise in any inquisitive being and have remained unanswered satisfactorily. This is a short article and not a treatise-it is only an indication ).
There has been much misunderstanding concerning Heredity and its allied problems, I think that if the significance of the effects of Pudgala on Atman is rightly grasped, as explained hereafter, there should not remain any misconception whatsoever. Ofcourse, a rational and unbiased scientific approach is essential in assimilating any such new methods of thinking or explaining the intricate questions of life, death and all other changes connected with them.
Mysterious are the ways of Maya or Pudgala affecting the Soul Under its own
