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Visas not all-pervad. ing, nar one in number, absolutely
1. Jiva (la)-Cogitative substance, Soul, Self or Subject is that which has Intelligence ( n) for its characteristic indication. It is marked out from Ajiva (719)—Non- abes cogitative substance, Non-soul, Not-self or non-eternal. Object by knowing consciousness (519) which essentially belongs to the Jiva only. This individual Jiva is not all-pervading, nor is it only one in number ; neither is it absolutely eternal or unchangeable ; nor is it absolutely non-eternal or transitory. It is innumerable in number and is both eternal and non eternal in accordance with the viewpoint we take to look at these.
This Jiva exists in the germinal state in the form of what is technically called Nigoda The germi, (fatitz). It contracts or expands, as the
the Jiva and requirements may be, to fit in
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with the corporeal frames it takes on at different stages of its migratory existence in order to enjoy pleasures or suffer from pains. In order to reap what it sows, it migrates here, there and everywhere through the processes of repeated births, developments and deaths. On account of its ever striving to break off the fetters of
its character
tions,
