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133
Gommatsara, Jiva-kand Fire-bodied
7,00,000 Air-bodied
.. 7,00,000 Vegetables Non-one-souled : Ever-one-body-many-souled
7,00,000 Other One-body-many-souled
7,00,000 One-souled, including Host-one-souled, and Non-hostone-souled
10,00,000 Two-sensed beings
2,00,000 Three-sensed
2,00,000 Four sensed »
2,00,000 Five-sensed Sub-human
4,00,000 Hellish
4,00,000 Celestial
4,00,000 Human
14,00,000
Total
..
84,00,000
II. SOUL-QUEST
In what different ways we search for a mundane soul ? We can do so in no less than fourteen different ways.
1. Four conditions of existence (Gati)
We may see whether it is a human, or a sub-human soul on earth; or it is a non-human soul above or under the earth. These latter are the celestial and hellish beings. All ancient systems of thought posited their existe We cannot see them today. But there is nothing inherently impossible in the conception of these forms of living beings, who live, think, and feel and can change their bodies at will, as described by Milton in his Paradise Lost.
This quest may be called Condition of Existence (Gati).
2. Five Senses (Indriya)
The five senses give us another kind of quest, called the sense-quest.
3. Six Embodiments (Kaya)
The different kinds of embodiments of immobile and mobile souls furnish another kind of quest. It is open to observation that the body of a vegetable and the body of a man are radically different, Ultimately as matter, they
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