Book Title: Theory of Atom in Jaina Philosophy
Author(s): Jethalal S Zaveri, Mahendramuni
Publisher: Agam and Sahitya Prakashan

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________________ 121 be Dass the fear emotion precede and cause the gland excretion or does the gland excretion precede and cause the fear emotion? A CRITIQUE f The concept of an independent psyche or immaterial mind of the mental hypothesis by the other psychological theories is obviously equivalent to the concept of bhāva manah of the Jains Bhāva manah as we have stated above, is the innate capacity of Jeeva and is therefore immaterial But for the rational mental activities, dravya manah which is the material counterpart of bhava manah is also essential We have also seen that only highly developed or samının panchendriya-animals and human beings are capable of forming dravya manah out of the material atoms of manah vargana and therefore capable of rational mental activities Thus the mental hypothesis to some extent agrees with the Jain view INTELLECT (BUDDHI) It will not be out of place to mention here (very briefly of course) an interesting feature of the Jain epistemology viz four buddhis or intellects Intellect is a variety of Matyjñana e perceptual cognition There are four categories of matijħana vız, knowledge 1) exclusively due to the sense organs 11) exclusively due to the mind m) due to the joint activity of the senses and the mind and iv) knowledge independent of both mind and sense organs viz intuition According to the Jain epistemology, all cognitions are nothing but different states of the soul and as such are only cases of emergence and not origination proper the sense and the mind being auxiliary conditions or instruments only Instinctive intuitions of the vegetable kingdom as well as the underdeveloped animal organisms fall under category iv), Memory, recognition and discursive instinctive

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