Jiva

MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA
M.M.NINAN
transformed into other substances by thinning (fire) or thickening (wind, clouds, rain, hail,
earth, rock).
Heraclitus of Ephesus (c. 535 - 475 B.C.)
Heraclitus of Ephesus was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Ephesus, on the
Ionian coast of modern-day Turkey. He is sometimes mentioned in connection the
Ephesian School of philosophy, although he was really the only prominent member of
that school (which, along with the Milesian School, is often considered part of the Ionian
School).
He was perhaps the first Western philosopher to go beyond physical theory in search
of metaphysical foundations and moral applications. His idea of a universe in
constant change but with an underlying order or reason (which he called Logos)
forms the essential foundation of the European worldview. The basic element of the
cosmos according to him consists of Fire and the reason behind the order and evolution
which he considered as Logos. According to Heraclitus, the world is in an eternal state
of "becoming", and all changes arise from the dynamic and cyclic interplay of
opposites. Opposites are necessary for life, he believed, but they are unified in a
system of balanced exchanges, with pairs of opposites making up a unity. .
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