Sramana 2016 01

Author(s): Shreeprakash Pandey, Rahulkumar Singh, Omprakash Singh
Publisher: Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi

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70 : Sramaņa, Vol 67, No. 1, January March 2016 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" Eight types of touch are-cold, hot, smooth (positive charge), rough (negative charge), light, heavy, soft and hard. 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. Kārmaņa and taijas bodies are the example of four touch quality matter. These should be taken up for an experiment by the scientists. Paramāņu or atom in Jainism has been propounded with a quality of two touches of smooth (positive charge) or rough (negative charge) and hotness or coldness. Matter can be the part of experiment by instrument, but the real consciousness of soul is difficult to come under the purview of experiments. Its approval has three sources according to Jaina philosophers1. Self-perception or self-realization 2. Inference- There are many logical arguments by which an entity of soul is approved. In Rājapraśniya-sūtra Keśīśramaņa has given so many arguments to king Pradeśī for establishment of a soul which is different from a body. Sense organs, mind are the instruments; someone should be the user of these instruments and that user is a
soul.
3. Canonical literature- The enlightened souls have told about the independent existence of a soul, by which consciousness is felt in a body. It is interesting to know that violence of prāņas, falsehood, theft, sexual copulation, possessiveness, anger, pride, deceit, greed, attachment, aversion etc. eighteen (18) sins appear in a soul", but these are having a characteristic of subtle pudgal having five colours, two odours, five tastes and four touches (cold, hot, smooth and