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Šramaņa Bhagavāna Mahāvira
CHAPTER I. Introduction.
There are two great very important categories in the Universe viz. 1. Soul. 1979 Jîva Tattva and 2. Non-soul aferenta A Jiva Tattva, and when we look upon the Universe, from the point of view of Life or Consciousness, we (livide all things which it contains into starate Jivātmas (Living Beings ) and w ater A-Jiva Parlārtha. (Non-living substance ).
The Soul gta Jiva is either LIBERATED ( Mukta; fra Sidillia) or Munrlane hartt Saṁsāri-Worllly. Every soul is potenti-ally pure. The Mundane soul is in conbination with Karmic matter.
Matter has touch, taste, smell ani! weight and it fills up space but the Essence of the Soul is conceived in Self-consciousness, absolutely devoid of any tinge of Materiality whatsoever. Matter is only a parasite-an unclean veil obscuring the soul's transpar-ently pure nature,
The Soul is ever all-perfect, all powerful. By ignorance and carelessness, the soul indentifies itself with Pudgala-gato-Matter and hence all its troubles and degradation during all mundance existences. The Soul is conscious; Matter is without consciousness.
The Soul is immaterial; the combination of soul and matter is material and it is effected by the soul's activity. This bondage is called Karma #Å since it is the Karma of or action of the soul; and it forms a subtle bond of extremely refined Karmic matter which prevents the soul from soaring up to its natural abode of Perfect Knowledge and Eternal Peace i. e. Moksa H797.
“ The living body, as we see it, is a combination of two distinct substances i. e. Living and Non-living, On the departure at death of the living substance which actuated the living body
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