Sacred Philosophy

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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supposed manner of our consciousness arising from the secretions of a changing perishable brain. A substratum of individuality* which endures in time is absolutely essential for recollection, and no amount of secretions from learned or primitive brains can ever take the place of such an individuality.
We shall advance only one more argument to show that the soul cannot be an attribute or specific property of an atom of matter or the secretion of the physical matter of the brain. This argument is furnished by the fact that the soul pervades the physical body in its entirety. Now, if the soul did not pervade its body in its entirety, it would be confined to some specific place; but in that case it
The individuality of the soul is not affected by the fact that there are to be found more living beings than one in certain organisms in nature. As Jainism points out, there are two kinds of organisms, namely, firstly, those that are inhabited by one soul each, and, secondly, those that resemble a colony of souls. The characteristic of the latter is that they generally have a common mouth and share certain other organs of their bodies in common, but are otherwise separate and distinct from each other. They certainly do not combine to form one soul by intensification or any other process or method; and the
destruction of one or more of them does not mean the destruction of them all. They are like the Hungarian twins, one of whom died without in any way affecting the individuality of the surviving sister, although the latter must have suffered grievously, in mind and body both, from the demise of one so closely and literally affiliated to her as to share her lower limbs.