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right to kill) is of several kinds, but can be divided into two, namely:
1. Avyakta or idefinite mithyalva. 2. Vyakta, or definite mithyatva.
There is a class of living beings, with which the universe is packed, so that there is not an inch of space, anywhere, where these are not. These living beings are conscious, they are very minute, and connot be seen with eye or microscope, fire will not kill them, nor will water, they pass through these things without being hurt, no human instrument can kill these living beings, they can pass through mountains anything. There are an infinity of these living beings and this is the source whence come the developing and liberated souls. They have an indefinite existence. They are called 'nigoda'.
The mithyatva of these nigoda is avyakta
mithyatva or indefinite; it has not Development taken any shape, whereas, the mithyatva begins,
of human beings is shaped and definite.
A person bas certain views on certain subjects.
The mithyatva in the muithyatva gulasthana or first stage of development, is the definite kind; the indefinite kint is not a stage of development and
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