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there are impressions upon our minds in connection with our body that the bodies are faminine or masculine we owing to impact of ignorance apply the same to ourselves that they are dual or plural in number and male or female or neutral so far as the sex is concerned.
The ignorant Jiva has no clear idea regarding nature of the soul. He thinks that soul and body are one and the same. In reality the soul is numberless and can not be pointed with 'He'ness or 'sheʼness or Itness. It transcends and surpasses everything.
The enlightened never brings about any distinctions in soul and contrariwise he has climbed up to such a stage wherein he finds that men and women or male and female thongh they are externally and for the minutest span of time are opposing to each other but ultimately their selves have an identity in their nature. The realised, the Arihant, have attained the highest point of evolution wherefrom they see the soul alone in the body and never as male or famale, one or many.
