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SOURCE OF ILLUMINATION (180) The Arhats are those who know all the objects by their Omniscience and have human bodies, the Siddhas are those who are endowed with the highest bliss and possessed of a body in the form of knowledge.
(181) Lord Jineśvara has said "relinquishing the extrovert attitude by your mind, speech and body realise the antarātmā and contemplate on the supreme soul (paramātmā)."
(182) Transmigration within the four species of living beings, birth, old-age, death, disease, sorrow,a family, a place of birth, a status in the scheme of Jivasthānas, a status in the scheme of mārgaņāsthānas none of these (really) belongs to a soul.
(183) The soul has no colour; no taste, no smell, no touch, no gender like male, female or neuter; on bodily form and no bone-structure.
(184) All these states of beings are said from the empirical point of view. From the real point of view, all souls including the mundane souls are perfect in nature.
(185) Know that infact the soul is devoid of taste, form, smell and sex. It is indescribable and posessed of consciousness, it is not amenable to inferential cognition, and is devoid of bodily structure.
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