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"I am unhappy" - the "I" in this perception is the proof of the soul's direct experience. This "Aham Pratyay" is the indicator of the soul's existence. The soul is directly experienced because its knowledge quality is self-evident. Just as things like pots and pans are considered directly experienced because their qualities like form and color are directly experienced, similarly, the soul is directly experienced because its knowledge quality is directly experienced. The soul exists because its extraordinary quality of consciousness is observed. Whatever has an extraordinary quality that is observed, its existence is certain, like the eye. The eye, being subtle, is not directly visible, but its existence is inferred from its power to produce the knowledge of form, which is not produced by other senses. Similarly, the soul is inferred from its consciousness quality, which is not found in inanimate objects. The Bhagavati Sutra states: "Gautama! If there were no soul, who would rise? Who would perform actions, strength, vigor, and effort? These actions, strength, vigor, and effort are the manifestation of the soul's existence. Who acts with knowledge? Acting and refraining with knowledge are also manifestations of the soul's existence." The passage in the Bhagavati Sutra that describes the actions of pudgala is also very thought-provoking. It states: "Gautama! If there were no pudgala, from what would the body be formed? Who would be the cause of the divisions? From what would the changing body be formed? Who would perform the functions of heat, digestion, and illumination? Who would be the means of experiencing pleasure and pain and delusion? How would sound, form, smell, taste, touch, and their respective organs - ears, eyes, nose, tongue, and skin - be formed? Who would be the cause of mind, speech, and pulsation? Whose are the inhalation and exhalation? If there were no darkness and light, no food and movement, no sun and shade, who would be small, who would be big? Who would be long, who would be wide? If there were no triangles and quadrilaterals, no circles and spheres, no conjunction and disjunction, no pleasure and pain, no life and death, this world would be invisible." From the above quote from the Bhagavati Sutra, it becomes clear that the worldly soul, afflicted by the karmic pudgalas, is associated with them like milk and water. There is a close relationship between the soul and the body. It is through this association that various activities occur. Food, breathing, senses, language, and mind are neither the qualities of the soul nor of the pudgala. They are the result of association - arising from the association of the soul and the body. Hunger is not felt by the soul nor by the body without the soul. The desire for enjoyment and consumption is not in the soul nor in the body without the soul. The union of the soul and the body is worldly life. As a result of the various consequences of actions, the worldly soul attains various forms. Sometimes it is born in a stationary form, sometimes in a mobile form. Sometimes it becomes one-sensed, sometimes two-sensed, three-sensed, four-sensed, and sometimes five-sensed. Sometimes it is born as a woman, sometimes as a man, and sometimes as a eunuch. Sometimes it is born as an animal or bird, sometimes as a human, and sometimes it is born in the heavenly realm. It is born and dies in eighty-four lakh species and families, and it suffers from various circumstances. Jain scholars have described these various states of the soul in a very subtle and detailed manner. 1. Bhagavati Shatak 13 U. 4, Su. 2-10 / 2. Bhagavati Shatak 13 U. 4 / [20]