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EXISTENCE OF THE SOUL
Annam jam paradavvam sachittachittamissam
vâ, 25.
Asi mama puvvamédam ahamêdam châvi puvva Kâlamhi,
Hôhidi punovi majjham ahamêdam châvi hôssâmi, 26.
Eyattu asambhūdam âdaviyappam karedi sammuḍho
Bhuduttham Jananto na karedi du tam asammuḍho, 27.
"It is an ignorant person who says of living, non-living, mixed or any other object (other than I), I am this, this is I, I am its, it is mine; this was mine in past time, I was this in past time; it will be mine in future, I will be this, expresses untrue thought activities. While a wise man never does this. He knows the Truth."
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Here living objects are women, children, pupils, lust and hate etc. impure thought activities; non-living objects are gold, silver, books and material Karmic, electric and outward bodies and all the five substances matter, medium of motion, medium of rest, space and time which the Jains believe to be other than the soul substance. The mixed objects are women and children with clothes and ornaments, students with books, four conditions of life, hellish, celestial, sub-human, human, sense-pleasure, impure knowledge, etc. The purport is that all the worldly
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