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the top of the universe.105 The fundamental position of Jain philosophy is that the self remains the self; it can never become a non-self. Likewise what is non-self or matter remains matter. It can never become the self.108
105. Paramatmaprakāśa, I. 23-25. 106. Ibid., I. 67.
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