Book Title: Whether Soul Super Soul Evil Soul Exists Author(s): Suvarna Jain Publisher: Suvarna JainPage 35
________________ which can't be cognitively established, hence dubbed as meaning nonsense, which transformed & changed into metaphors, paradoxes, & symbols. A countless consciousness is meaningless expression An awareness can't be awareness of nothing consciousness is always consciousness of something. The illusionary character of religion - soul, God, Ghost, spirit will either disappear or remain an illusion. Disappearance has no future as truth. Revelation as compared to scientific method is seen to be unrealiable, spasmodic unsystematic, unprogressive, hurdle or obstacle to progress requires checkmates. None of the ancient theistic religion has scientific method for truth investigation, belief in God or soul Aurbindo, Radhakrishna, Radhaswami, Brahmasamaj, Arya Samaj, none of them accepts scientific method as central to its investigation of truths & crieteria of truth their founder practice of old method of revelation or mystic experience. They still hold scientific method is not appropriate to truth about human soul. Hence they are not true development on ancient religions. They are reaffirmation of old scripts through fresh mystic experiences or through new interpretation fo texts. Belief to be true, must be consistent with other established truths & must satisfied to be true & must be verified by scientific method. Error free path is impossible for anyone in nature. Many religions share creation of myth. Hindu contains notion of forthcoming avatar God Vishnu as creator, brahma as originator, Mahesh as destroyer. Buddhist & Jainism have no such myths. Hindu Jains, Buddhist share idea of existence, consists of continuation of cycle of birth-death rebirth, recarnation Chinese, Japanese share common belief in revering the spirits of dead ancestors. Judism, Christianity Islam has belief in one God, concept of revelation & role played in it by prophets & sacred texts are characteristic in common. Primal religion of world believe that spirits inhibit many aspects of nature & use religious rituals for such functions as promoting fertility. Mediterranean, Middle East, Norse & Celtic culture of Northern Europe worship many Gods-stars, moon, ocean, mountains, love, war farming e.g. they sacrifice corn to make corn grow, worship war-God to win battle. In Egypt Memphis Prah was creator of universe. In Helipolis Ra Atom was the supreme God & Isis & Orisis were rules under the world. Egyptians believe Pharoah as sun-god, scorpion-repellent of evil, cat-goddess of sex Egyption believe souls of dead went to underworld region called Duat. Egyptian bodies are mummified to preserve to use in next world so rich Egyptian were buried with valuable possessions. Jain Education International 30 For Personal & Private Use Only www.jainelibrary.orgPage Navigation
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