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Structure of the Soul and Extension :: 155
pradías, and hence parts, in the soul. The idea of the density of the soul must be taken by him as contributing towards the same inconsistency. We have distinguished between spiritual and material extensions, and in the same way spiritual density must be distinguished from the material one. If a substance is extended its density also becomes a necessary accompaniment. The extension and the density of the soul's substance may be held to vary approximately in the inverse ratio. These very facts have led Akalanka to admit that the soul-units may be held to be real but they never imply the division of the soul's substance.
1. Umesh: Bhāratiya darsana, (Hindi) p. 132 2. The term 'density' when used in case of the soul seems to be
inappropriate, as it is very closely connected with material bodies. Where the theory of interpenetration of matter is not accepted, affinity of atoms in the rigid body is taken to be the meaning of its density. But were the above theory is upheld density will also refer to the copresence of the atoms at the same space point. Spiritual density, according to the Jaina theory means the compresence of the soul-units, because the soul is a continuous substance. This meaning of density well applies to the spiritual dentity, as the souls contract by interpenetration of their pradeśas.
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