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But nature has its own laws. In this way, it considers the soul to be completely unchanging. Even though there is no agency, it believes that experience is in the soul itself. '17 Based on this experience, there is a possibility of change in the soul, therefore many Sankhya do not consider experience to be the dharma of the soul. '' They have protected the meaning of the soul being detached. In the Kathopanishad etc., the soul is also considered detached. '16 In Jainism, the soul is considered to be all-pervasive, it is body-measure-pervasive. It has both contraction and expansion qualities. The soul is not considered to be eternally detached, but it is considered to be eternally changing / In this vast universe, it takes birth in the form of various permutations and combinations, and it is only at a fixed place that the soul takes on a body. It became necessary to contemplate on the question of which being is in which place, so in the second step of Prajnapan, contemplation was done in relation to place. There are two types of places - one permanent, the other incidental / After taking birth, the place where the being lives until death is the permanent place, the permanent place has been called self-place by Pagamkar. The incidental dwelling place is of two types - in the form of arrival and expansion / From the Jain perspective, when the life of a being is complete, it takes birth in a new place. A being is about to become a human after completing its divine life. That being comes from the divine realm to the human realm. The journey that it makes in between is not its self-place. It is an incidental journey, that journey has been called the arrival place. The second incidental place is expansion / The expansion of the realms of the being on specific occasions like pain, death, reaction etc. is expansion. During expansion, the soul-realm remains in the body-place, but it also remains in some place outside for the duration of the expansion. Therefore, from the perspective of expansion, the incidental dwelling place of the being has been considered / In this way, in the second step, contemplation has been done in relation to all three types of places - self-place, arrival place and expansion place. It should also be remembered here that in the first step, contemplation has not been done on the places of many common distinctions like one-sensory, among the designated distinctions of beings, only the places of the main distinctions have been considered. Contemplation has been done from the perspective of arrival, expansion and self-place for worldly beings, but only contemplation of self-place has been done for the liberated ones. The liberated ones do not have arrival / Other worldly beings have the rise of karmas like name, lineage, lifespan etc., due to which they go from one state to another. The liberated ones are free from karmas. Due to the absence of karmas, they do not take birth in the liberated form. From the Jain perspective, the beings who go up to the end of the universe do not touch the luminous realms, 10 therefore the liberated ones do not have an arrival place. Only karmic beings expand, not the liberated ones / Therefore, in the present case, contemplation has been done only on the self-place of the liberated ones. One-sensory beings are spread throughout the universe. Two-sensory, three-sensory, four-sensory and general five-sensory beings are in countless parts of the universe. Separate places have been designated for hellish and celestial five-sensory beings, humans and gods. 116. Sankhyakarika 11 117. Sankhyakarika 17 118. Sankhyatattvakaumudi 17 119. Kathopanishad 12 // 1819 120. Prajnapanamalayagirivritti, page 108 [36]