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70 1 The Path of Arhat: A Religious Democracy
(8) Such a soul is in existence even in an atom and every such soul-even of an atom, has the potentiality of achieving God-hood and this belief is at the root of the theory of Ahimsa.
Having thus seen the proof of existence and the main characteristics of one of the components of this Universe, we may now proceed to consider the characteristics of the other component, namely, Ajīva.
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