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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. Jivas includes birds, acquatics, animals and human beings and all those that people Heaven, Earth and Purgatory.
II. Ajiva (vita -Non-cogitative substance, Non-soul, Not-self or the Object is all what is absolutely bereft of all intelligence, and consequently of the tripartite modes of consciousness This Ajevu or Noncogitative substauce is of five kinds, viz ;
(1) Pudgala signifies what develops fully only to be dissolved again. It is that kind of dead dull ponderable ( put) matter, which is qualified with touch, taste, smell
and colour. It is found to exist generally Ponderable Aprva-Pud in two modes of being :-(a) Anu (70)
aton, and (b) Skandha ( a), --compound. When the dead and dull matter exists in the last indissoluble stage where the ingredients admit of no further analysis, it is called anu or atom And Skandha-compound is the natural conglomeration of pudgal-atoms under chemical and physical laws. It is these Pudgala-atoms that incessantly enter and leave our bodies and are infinitely more numerous than the Fivas Karma is a kind of fine Pudgal-atoms.
gal and its indications -Laksiana
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