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righteous and good nature. human being, in the sense that
(Mulla Sadra, 1996: 225) he does not consider the soul
Although philosophers to have much function in
consider man to be composed worldly life, and it is only the
of two domains, body and mind that affects the body and
Nafs, the most important existence.
domain of man is his Nafs, Although Chopra believes
which is a non-material and in soul, he attributes the
Devine being; (Ibid, 1981, power of creativity to the
Vol. 1: 314-315) However, human mind, not his soul. If
Chopra believes in three Chopra considered the soul
domains: physical, spiritual, higher than the mind and
and mental. (Chopra, 2001) introduced the mind as a tool
He attaches great or a part of the soul, we could
importance to the mental easily see the maximum
dimension of man and overlap of his and Mulla
introduces it as the source of Sadra's views.
all human abilities. In the However, even if we
discussion of creation, human consider consciousness as
possessions in and outside the soul, the problem still remains;
body, and healing and illness Because from Chopra's
of the body, he does not viewpoint, the mind is
mention the factor called Nafs influential and consciousness
and soul, which belongs to the is influenced; While from
body and manages it and can Sadra's point of view, the soul
control the body and outside is the cause of everything.
of it. Instead, he introduces Chopra and Sadra have in
the mind as the cause of all of common that both of them
them. (Ibid, 1987) consider the human mind to
As a result, Chopra can be be creative; But the main
considered a one-dimensional difference is that from Sadra's
