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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Nyaya Vais'eşika
(Buddhi) and the cause of experiences is the condition or tendency of the mind; it is either good or bad (papa punyatmika) and the defects in it like attachment, etc., .... cause the origination of the body...." It becomes thus clear that the ultimate source of energy and the ultimate substratum of all kinds of psychical experiences is the soul. It is the source of energy and acts as the final agent of actions and enjoyer of experiences, pleasurable or painful locating them in the intellect; as he is the doer of actions merit and demerit (dharma and adharma) belong to it and it revolves on the cycle of life by transmigrating from one body to another according to its moral desert; it acts as the permanent sustainer of psychical experiences and hence remembrances of the experiences of the past life become possible. It is infinite, unborn and undying, all-pervasive, but one for each separate body; it is at the root of all the mental experiences and uses the mind as its instrument of receiving experiences, though in it the consciousness does not reside for ever; because if it develops consciousness only when it comes to be associated with the external world through the senses with the help of the mind (manas).
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For Private And Personal
How is the soul known by oneself? Is it known by us we know the objects of the world in the form of 'this' or it'? The Naiyayikas hold that the soul reveals itself to us in the form of our ego. It reveals itself to us as our 'I' or by our experience of 'Ihood' (Ahaṁpratyaya — ). As Jayanta
Bhatta Jayanta Nyaya Manjari, p. 428.
