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Society, Epistemology and Logic in Indian Tradition
do something. Where does from this enthusiasm come? Generally it is accepted that enthusiasm comes from the food which we eat. Vaidic statement 'annam vai prāṇāḥ' proves it. It is true that without food body cannot run for a long time. Food is the source of energy to work through body. Body is made of matter (pudgal), so materialistic (paudgalika) food is required to sustain it. Soul has its own enthusiasm or power which is expressed in mental power and in emotional balance. Soul gives consciousness to body, but it has to leave the body, if that is not capable to sustain with consciousness. If the body is decayed and prānas are arrested then soul leaves that body and goes to take birth in a new body with two subtle bodies namely taijas and kārmaṇa.
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Science has reached in its research up to consciousness of brain, cells and genes and it has proved that cells of the body are changing every moment. Body cells are renewed in a certain time interval; hence food is needed for this activity of change. This gross body cannot survive without food. According to Jainism, animation in gross body, brain, genes etc. is found due to consciousness of the soul. In the presence of a soul all of these work consciously.
Science has done experiments on the matter or pudgala having eight touch qualities". Gross body, blood, brain, genes are the matter of eight touch qualities. Jaina scriptures propound a matter of four touch quality and two touch quality also. Kārmaṇa and Taijas bodies are the example of four touch
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Eight types of touch are - cold, hot, smooth (positive charge), rough (negative charge), light, heavy, soft and hard.
