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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Samkhya
excluded from each other. Moral chaos would result if the good and bad activities are not followed by their corresponding rewards, and the distinctions of rewards would be lost if they are not entirely separated from each other. If there were only one soul, on the performance of a good deed by one, all would get the credit of doing a good action and all would reap the good fruit thereof, although, in fact some of them would be morally deteriorated because of their vicious actions. Those who are morally deficient would not have to reap the evil fruits of their vicious actions as they will be benefitted by the good actions of others- the soul of all being one. In order to avert such calamities and confusions in the moral sphere, it is really necessary that each doer of actions is separate and the results of his actions perpetrate on him separately. For that purpose the Sankhyas are justified in recognising the plurality of souls.
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The Samkhya system is in agreement with the Nyāya-Vaiseṣika in believing in the plurality of souls to prove the varieties of birth, death and attributes. But in the absence of any distinguishing characteristic in the essential nature of the souls, it is impossible to distinguish one soul from another. All souls possess only one characteristic and, that is simply 'sentience' or 'consciousness' as opposed to Prakṛti which is insentient. All souls or Purusas are souls only in virtue of sentience of which they are constituted. On the ground of sentience all are similar, but there is nothing in the very constitutions
