Kristumata Chedanam is knowledge, why is it that pregnancy, birth, death, breath, food, sleep, copulation, love, hatred, memory, forgetfulness, fear, happiness, sorrow, etc are found alike in animals and humans? Animals also perceive the sense objects through the five senses. For example, since a dog, when called by name by the master hiding somewhere, rushes to him, it is clear that animals also have faculty of hearing. Since, when given cooked rice mixed with sand, it separates and eats only cooked rice, it is clear that animals do have faculty of taste. Since, upon seeing its master, a dog jumps and plays with the master and licks his body, it can be said that animals also have the faculty of vision. Since a dog runs away when someone is about to thrash him and cries in pain when beaten, it is evident that animals also have the faculty of touch. Since a dog can find out by smelling if the food is edible, it is clear that animals have the faculty of smell. Therefore, it is certain that animals have faculty of all the five senses. If it is now argued that animals just have ordinary knowledge and lack discriminative knowledge and it is this discriminative knowledge which we consider as soul, this argument doesnâ€&#x;t seem to be justified. Both a pocket sized book with
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