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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
The Jain Literature has divided the mundane souls into two kinds also. (1) Immobiles--all one-sensed beings such as earth, water, fire, air and vegetable-bodied. (2) Mobiles-All the others form the two-sensed to the five-sensed beings."
VIII. It can be liberated. When through self-concentration, all the karmic matter is shed off and all the causes of inflow of new matter are removed, then the soul becomes liberated and attains Nirvana.
IX. It has the nature of going upward. From the real point of view, the nature of the soul is to go upward, like the flame of fire. When it is freed from karmas, it goes upward to the top of the universe. But when it is in bondage with the karmas, it goes after death from one incarnation to another instantly in straight directions, i.e., east, west, south, north, upwards and downwards but not in cross lines. If the place of re-birth is in a crooked place, the soul will take turnings through straight directions and reach there. The readers will have some idea of the mundane souls from the above description.
Panchâstikaya by Sri Kunda Kunda Acharya says the same :
जीवोत्ति हवदि चेदा उपओगविसेसिदो पहु कत्ता।
भोत्ता य देहमत्तो ण हि मुत्तो कम्मसंजुत्तो ॥२७॥ Jivótti havadi chédâ upavoga visésidó pahu katta, Bhôtta ya déhamattô nahi muttó kammasanjutto 27.
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