Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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that every jiva enfolds, within its own form, the germ of the divine status which will be attained on reaching Nirvana. For, if the jiva be only a pratibimba of consciousness, how comes it to be endowed with consciousness? Observation certainly does not support the supposition of understanding, will and memory in pure reflections.
THE SIDDHANTA.
Passing on to a consideration of the question, whether motion be a property of pure spirit, reflection shows that the soul is unmoving by nature; it can only move from place to place with the aid of matter. If the soul were to move about, it would do so either because it is its nature to do so, or because it is subject to the forces of attraction and repulsion of matter; but so far as the former alternative is concerned, there is absolutely nothing to suggest that motion is a characteristic of pure spirit, and in regard to the latter, its subjection to the material forces of nature is exactly of the same sort as that of the insect which is drawn to a magnet because it would not give up its hold on a piece of iron filing besmeared with honey. There is absolutely nothing to show that the soul, in its natural purity, is liable to be influenced by the operation of the physical forces of attraction and repulsion to which matter is undoubtedly subject. As a matter of fact the soul can override gravitation itself in the twinkling of an eye if it be self-conscious. A partial confirmation of this is to be found in the fact that while lifeless, unconscious things cannot break away from this powerful force, we jump, dance and walk about in defiance of it, at our merest will. It is thus certain that motion is not a function of the soul, which