Jiva

MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA
M.M.NINAN
“It is in man that nature really performs, in a self-evident way, that very activity that we
are accustomed to call ‘thinking’. In man, in the form of man, in his person, Nature
itself thinks, and not at all some special substance, source, or principle instilled into it
from outside. In man, therefore, Nature thinks of itself, becomes aware of itself, acts
on itself. And the ‘reasoning’, ‘consciousness’, ‘idea’, ‘sensation’, ‘will’, and all the other
special actions that Descartes described as modi of thought, are simply different modes
of revealing a property inalienable from Nature as a whole, one of its own attributes.”
(Prof. E.V. Elyenkov, Dialectical Logic, Progress Publishers, Moscow.)
It is evident that the Dialectical Materialism and its Historical Materialism is the absolute
statement of the monistic Materialism as a philosophy. It however evades the question
of how these laws came into effect and especially how qualities are arrived at or
developed. It is simply ascribed as a property of matter which is impossible to predict
until actually experienced.
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