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The Soul :: 97
Nor can they be traced to a common origin different from mind and body both. Both of them are possessed of capacities that enable them to admit of the 'upakāra' or virtual action of each other. This allows a scope for an interplay between mind and matter. It is on account of the nimitta theory of causation, which is ultimately based on the non-absolute nature of reality that the doctrine of mindbody relation takes a tenable form. At the same time the Jaina theory of nayavāda reduces it to interactionism in one context and to parallelism in another. Thus none of these theories embody the whole truth about the mind-body relation, they are only the partial aspects of the whole truth. They cannot be held to be false, unless we mean by the formulation of the one the total negation of the other.
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