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connection and inter-relation of the individuals. Suppose a man in India purchases a cycle and pays money for the same in Delhi or Patna to the seller. The cycle has been supplied from England. The whole money does not go to one single person. The money, in the broadest sense, is distributed to the whole connected world through purchases and inter purchases and payments to each other for manufacture, labour charges, cost of raw materials, profits, freights etc. etc. Then again, when the monies, realised by these persons, are again repaid for their own necessities and requirements and so on and so forth,
Thus one must see that this is a world of inter-relations and inter-dependence. No one is absolutely exclusive and isolated howsoever he or she may appear to be. One may or may not conceive and accept this plain truth but the whole Universe is onesingle entity.
If the Purush of Vedanta is identified with Atman of Jains and Prakriti with Pudgala-formations then really there remains very small difference between the two
