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Souls
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SOUL. with dusts falling on it and appears nonreflecting in consequence. This soulsubstauce. of the Jains, is not a single Sansâr. all pervading reality without a second of its kind to stand by it. There is an infinity of these souls. And though true it is that an infinite number of these has become free from the turmoils of the world ; yet there remains an infinite number struggling for freedom ; for, if infinity is taken from infinity the remainder is infinity itself. It is these souls in plasms that lie scattered in every nook and corner of the universe and each is the doer of good or bad deeds to reap the consequences of which each takes to the repetition of births and deaths according to the merits of its own karma and thus traverses through the various grades of Samsår, Heaven, Hell or pargatory or ultimately releases itself from the fetters of bondage by the dissipation of its own karma whereupon it becomes pure and perfect and fixed as it were in the regions of Aloke.
Thus we see as a reality, the soul has no beginning nor end: but viewed with the light of its own states or grades of existence,
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