Jiva

MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA
M.M.NINAN
a person's body dies), the remaining core of rationality "is immortal and eternal". This
implies that the "spark" of rationality in an individual's soul will eventually return to the
"fire" of God from which it came.
Apollonius of Tyana (15-100 AD)
Neopythagorians such as Apollonius of Tyana centered their cosmologies on
the Monad or One.
According to Aristotle's theology, a form of invariant form exists without matter, beyond
the cosmos, powerless and oblivious, in the eternal substance of the unmoved movers.
Aristotle’s pupil Alexander the Great invaded India and brought the Greek Philosophical
thought into India.
Alexander the Great (356 – 323 BC)and his master Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)
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