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one attribute. The soul is the sentient and the body is not. Both the soul and the body have infinite attributes. Amongst all these attributes the difference lies only in one: that the soul is the sentient and the body is not. This is a very significant observation. Indeed when all but one attribute are similar then, there is large similarity. The difference is created by a single attribute.
The experience of similarity
Attributes are of two kinds: samanya that is common and vishesh that is specific. The common attribute is found in the same manner everywhere, in the sentient as well as the insentient. The souls, being sentient are intangible and, matter, in spite of being the insentient is also intangible. The medium of motion (dharma astikaya) and the medium of rest (adharma astikaya) represent the insentient and the intangible. From this perspective then, the intangible soul and insentient ether are similar. Both are matterless and incorporeal. Dharma astikaya is a substance but not corporeal, it is incorporeal. Many a time we say that the soul is not corporeal. But is dharma astikaya not incorporeal? There is a
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