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JATN PHILOSOPHY & MODERN SCIENCE things pertaining to the present life as well as the life after the death, and he has shown the path to attam happiness in both of them 'One who restrains his soul is happy in both lives,'10 he said' and he showed that the properties of the soul are knowledge, faith, conduct, penance, spiritual strength and consciousness 20 In Jain scriptures we come across, a. discussions of atheistic philosophy and its crticism In the first chapter of Sutrakritang a number of old doctrines have been discussed and described it has been said about atheists "There are some who regard soul as an evolute of the five material elements VIZ, earth, air, water, fire and space and regard it as destroyed along with the dissolution of these elements"
Shilangacharya, a great Jain commentator, define ing this passage criticises the above belief and observes "The combination of the elements is an independent characteristic Consciousness is not its property because the elements-earth, air, water, fire and space -have other independent properties By the collection of substances which have absolutely other qualities, a unique and common property cannot be originated As by the collection of the dry sand-particles oil cannot be obtained, and by the collection of pot and cloth a pillar cannot result; similarly consciousness can be the property only of the soul and not of the
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