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THE JAINA
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PHILOSOPHY
Jains' concept of soul Jeans, of course talks of 'Universal mind' and 'individual minds' The Universal mind, according to him is the creator and governor of the realm of matter as well as the individual minds He believes that atoms out of which our individual minds have grown exist as thought in the Universal mind
The Jain view does not agree to the existence of any such Universal mind of which the individual minds are units of excrescences According to the Jain view, all the souls are independent individual entities having real objective existence Jeans has not given any reason for his belief which is akin to the pantheistic view
Jeans believes in the existence of God as the creator of the Universe For 'God' he uses the terms Great Architect of the Universe Also Jeans believes that the Great Architect of the Universe must be a pure mathematician As we have already seen, the Jaina philosophy does not concede to the theory of universe as a creation of God It contends that the universe is a collection of the eternal and everchanging realities, and is, therefore, not a creation (of any mind)
Now as we have already seen, the Jain view concedes that the sensory knowledge of the phenomena of the universe may not be wholly objective but it does not conform with Jeans' views in considering the phenomena of the universe as wholly subjective
According to Jeans, the objective reality or the real essence of substance is beyond our knowledge He. thus, seems to accept Kant's transcendentalism in which the thing-in-itself is considered to be tran6 See, ibid.,
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