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SPIRITUAL FLAME IS SAME
IN EVERYONE)
Soul or being is represented in the form of flame. In terms of knowledge and sentience all souls are same. In terms of its attribute of sentience there is no difference in souls irrespective of their belonging to any of the beings of any of the four genuses—Siddhas; Vaimanik, Jyotishk and other gods; twins, ascetic, householder, king and beggar; large or small animal, insects and moths; different types of plants and trees including fruits, flowers and roots; infernal beings and Paramadharmik gods. Thus as entity soul is one. The visible differences like that of behavior and conduct is merely from the angle of paryaya or mode (body). In the illustration, at the center is soul in the form of a flame and that exists in every being.
-Sthaan 1, Sutra 1
(See illustration on back page)
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