Book Title: tman_and_moksa
Author(s): G N Joshi
Publisher: Gujarat University

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________________ Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra www.kobatirth.org Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir 802 Atman and Moka It possesses the power of perception and intelligence. It has an inherent tendency towards the angelic world. The souls are of three kinds -(1) Too feeble soul. It remains confined in the limits of the region of sense and imagination. It cannot perceive the spiritual. (2) The souls of the other class are carried by reflective movement and a natural disposition to a spiritual intelligence. They can enter into a state of contemplation which results in ecstacy. This is the intuition of the Saints (Auliya). (3) The souls of the third class are created with the power of disengaging themselves from their human bodies in order that they may rise to the angelic state where they become like angels. These souls get the direct revelation of God.' The Koran gives a full description of God that is omnipotent, omniscient, all-good and benevolent, merciful, loving, lover of righteousness and the redeemer of the believers in Him. .: The Christian view is that the individuals are like children of God. The individual souls are sinful in nature and their degradation is due to their sinfulness. They are intelligent, and capable of enjoying supreme bliss with God. They are finite and limited in their powers. They are often subject to earthly temptations, and so are more likely to be increasingly sinful. God, on the contrary, is infinite, all pervasive, omnipotent, benevolent, extre. mely loving, merciful, lover of peace and tranquillity, the distroyer of the satanic beings and evil, and the redeemer of the humanity. The soul is an arena i Sell Edward : The Faith of Islam, p. 152. For Private And Personal

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