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162 RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE JAINAS identified with the self; and such fear shows that the person considers these things, property, reputation, embodied life, etc., to be the factors of his being; he has not realised that his real self is different from these things, his goods, his emotions, his physical body, his reputation, etc. and that his real self cannot be injured by any of these losses. Fear for the loss of these things implies that he thinks that these things are the factors of his being (whereas they are not, he can live independently of them), that they are his self, and that if they are destroyed, he is destroyed with them. An Arhat would not have fear with regard to anything. Fear shows lack of knowledge and weakness.
Here was given a train of reasoning by which we may know that the soul must and does exist: Matter is indestructible. If the state called knowledge can be proved to be different (which of course it can be) from motion of matter, not only in degree but in kind (then soul can be proved as an independent substance, different from matter); as the attributes of black etc., are attributes of objects, so the attribute of 'knowing and the attribute of morality or mode of behaviour must be the attributes of some real thing - call it soul, self, ego, individual, or what not. And as matter cannot be destroyed, so this soul cannot be destroyed. And it is not a compound; it is a unit always itself. It must exist for ever That it will exist always in some state or other is the esse of a reality. It is one of the natures of a reality to exist.
10. He has no feeling of disgust or sense of repulsion. The reason would be that the sense of disgust produces a kind of misery; and in the ideal man there must be no misery; also the is no sense of disgust when it is known that the object of disgust could only exist in those conditions. If there is disgust it is because only one or two of the aspects of the object are considered; if all the aspects are known then there is not any disgust; and so if there is any sense of disgust it shows lack of knowledge, and in the Arhat or Deva or Deity there must be no lack of knowledge.
11. You do not find sorrow. Sorrow is a misery. He may have compassion.
12. Sexual passion or lust has disappeared entirely; because
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