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fore going chapter 7, saying, “I am not in them (though) they are in Me." The apparent paradox can be solved by the Jain belief that it is “Jiva' (soul) which supplies its dynamism to “Ajiva” (non-soul), thus resulting in multifarious phenomenal activities of the universe. (Reference be made also to verses 7 to 10). Thus the infinite character of the soul pervades the finite. The Jains believe that when the soul is associated with non soul and supplies it's dynamism to its associate, which is known in Sankhya as “Prakriti” , its omniscience and omnipotence are blurred and its “Dravyarthic"charcter is converted into “Paryaayaarthic one - a modefication with which we are usyally familiar.
The explanation of the Adwatists (Monotheists) like the great Shankara and Swami Chinmayanandji is that second line of the verse 4 is a classical description of “Relationless Relationship" between Real and Unreal describing it as the theory of “Super
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