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called inner and superior energy. Thus modern science and ideas of great scientists are coming closer to ancient Indian life and includes the study of self realisation and consciousness.
TULSI-PRAJNA
The feeling of selfhood has been taken to be a proof for the existence of the soul. Everyone feels himself as a distinct from his organs, his nerves, brain and this distinct experience leads to the existence of soul as a distinct entity from matter. We all know that no proof is required to prove the existence of happiness, misery, etc. and a similar case is with Soul. Scientists support the existence of psychoplasm in place of protoplasm, which is a substance of the psychical structure with consciousness. The present day psychology is only psyche as it does not base on soul and wasting much of its time in aping the lower sciences of physics, chemistry and mathematics. These are built only on methods which fails in the field of psychology
The living (life) is one of the six substances namelylife, non-living, dharma (religion), adharma (sin) Akash (skv) and Kal (age). These never destroy and remained in their region. All these substances have existence. The livings are with sensation and may be soil borne, water borne, heat borne, air borne and plant borne. The every existent can be conceived in terms of substance, attributes. modes and traits A substance has attributes and modes and can not stand independently of its attributes and modes Jaina believes in anekanta theory of existence, which is more than real, as the antithesis of ekanta i e an absolutism and affirms one uniform character of reality. Jaina system starts with the scientific postulate ex-nihilo nihil fit and thus grounded in the reality
Uniqueness of Soul :
"Ekasthitah serva bhutantratma" (only one soul dwells in all beings) is propounded in Hindu's Vedas and Upnishads. In accordance with Jaina theory of substance the soul is shown to possess a multiplicity of attributes
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