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(4) - The individual impulse of life - 'that what lives in a
living being' - (jiva) - the elements that do not possess consciousness (ajiva) - the mechanism that attracts karmic matter to our conscious
ness (asrava) - the binding of karmic matter to our consciousness (bandha) - the termination of the process that binds karmic matter to our
life (samvara) - the separation of karmic matter from our consciousness (nir
jara) and - freedom from all influences that limit our innate qualities and
abilities (moksa) are reality. (5) We experience reality (consciousness, matter, time etc.) on four
different planes: - on the plane of names - where we use names and terms for
the purpose of communication and social mechanisms (nama) - on the plane of selection - where we filter our individual reality from the constant barrage of billions of inner and outer stimuli (sthapana) - on the plane of all potentially possible features of the elements - which constitutes the basis for the identical percep
tion of reality by different people (dravya) and - on the plane of facts - where individual features of the elements (or a combination of them) influence our actual present (bliava).
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