Jiva

MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA
M.M.NINAN
things of the object being saved... Thales the founder of this type of philosophy says
that it is water."
It may be noted that Thales was not stating about the creation, or water as a creative
agent, but everything else evolved from water. In the earlier Biblical account of creation
a similar statement appears. After stating that “In the beginning God ceated…..” it goes
on to describe the evolution of the universe in the statement “And the Spirit of God
moved on the face of the waters.” Evidently the word “waters” refers not to the
compound “water” as we understand. The term used is in plural “waters”. It may better
be translated as “plasma” of post big bang in our modern tongue. The same is true
about the other scientific attempts of later philosophers. They were essentially talking
about the post singularity evolution. There is an apparent identification of singularity as
indescribable at every point. These were essentially scientific attempts and are far from
other theistic explanations. We will take this up in the modern attempt in Big Bang
theory again.
Anaximenes (c. 585 - 525 B.C.)
Anaximenes (c. 585 - 525 B.C.) called the ultimate reality as air. He was an early Pre-
Socratic philosopher from the Greek city of Miletus in Ionia (modern-day Turkey). He
was a key figure in the Milesian School, a friend and pupil of Anaximander and he
continued the Milesians' philosophical inquiries into the "archê" or first principle of the
universe which Anaximenes deemed to be air. ."Just as our soul, which is air,
integrates us, so breath and air surround the whole cosmos." He suggested it could be
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