Philosophy of Nine Reals

SR No.: 006560
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sunandaben Vohra
Publisher: Shantilal V Desai
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 96
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 4 MB

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LESSON 3
HOW WORLDLY SOULS CLASSIFIED ?
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One class : All worldly souls come under one broad class when the principle of classification is sentiency. All worldly souls are uniform in the sense that they all possess the common quality sentiency.
Two classes : Mobile and immobile. Here the principle of classification is voluntary motion.
Three classes : Female, Male and Neuter. Here the principle of classification is sex.
Four classes : Celestial, human, animal and infernal. Here the principle of classification is life-species.
Five classes : One-sensed, two-sensed, threesensed, four-sensed and five-sensed. Here the principle of classification is number of sense-organs.
Six classes : Earth-bodied, water-bodied, fire-bodied, air-bodied, plant-bodied and mobile-bodied. The first five are immobile worldly souls.
Mobile : Those that are capable of moving voluntarily from one place to another in order to avoid harassment and torture. They possess two senses to five senses.
Immobile : Those that cannot have the ability to move and hence cannot move even though they are harassed and tortured. Under this class fall all worldly souls from the subtle lowest living beings called nigoda to all one-sensed living beings, viz. earth-bodied, waterbodied, fire-bodied, air-bodied and plant-bodied.
One-sensed worldly souls Those which exist together with many others in a common plant body.
Those which exist one each in one plant body only. That is, here one plant body is having one soul only.