The Truth

Author(s): O P Jain
Publisher: Veer Nirvan Granth Prakashan Samiti

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THE TRUTH
and Adharma dravyas exist, is called Lokakasa and beyond that is Alokakasa. The Jiva and Pudgala can only be found in the space where Dharma and Adharma dravyas exist and not beyond it. Hence Lokakasa is the place where the entire drama of the samsara is being cnacted. Modern science also confirms this view.
5.3.5—Kala is that substance which helps to produce changes in substances, though it does not cause these changes. But from ordinary point of view, it consists in hours, minutes etc., by which we call a thing to be new or old according to changes produced in the same. The substantial cause behind the activities of hours, minutes. is the substance Kala.
Out of the six substances described before, only Jiva and Pudgala are more important to understand because it is only these two which are responsible for the samsara and whose clear understanding may lead to a path for liberation.
5.4 Mechanism of consciousness : As stated earlier, consciousness is the main characteristic of soul and no other substance in the Universe possesses it. Consciousness is manifested through instinct or intelligence. After the consciousness has received an external sensory excitement, the resulting reaction of the experiencing consciousness is the source of bodily movement which is performed either through automatic reflexes, when it is called an instinct, or through selected appropriate channels like the brain, when it is called intelligence.
The highest function of the mind is selection, discrimination and judgement and is performed only by such living beings as are able to arrest their psychic automation i.e., ceaseless flow of action of mind, speech and body. It can be experienced in our daily life that it is so. It is the same thing as being attentive or control over our senses. This function is performed through the brain. Emotions and desires perhaps result through automatic reflexes, while judgement and discrimination arise through the brain. Both, however, are the states of one's own consciousness. Nerves, brain and other five sense organs are merely the instruments needed by the soul to unfold its consciousness. It is like a man needing glasses when his eye sight becomes weak. The soul in its pure form does not need these organs and is all knowing by itself. The impurities weaken its powers. In the impure state,