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of soul. It deals with the following
traditional material relating to the problem questions in this connection :
1. Different states of soul 2. Cognition as the defining characteristic of soul 3. Souls in bondage and liberation 4. Souls with mind and without mind 5. Mobile-bodied and immobile-bodied souls 6. Sense-organs and their objects 7. Process of transmigration 8. Different birth-places and births 9. five kinds of bodies 10. Sexual urge 11.
Premature death 12. Contraction and expansion of soul 13. Function of souls.
Later Jaina philosophers vindicated the nature of (worldly) soul as essentially conscious, changing, doer, direct enjoyer, equal in extent to its body, different in each body and possessor of material Karmas. The existence of soul is proved by direct experience etc. It attains emancipation, which consists in the annihilation of all the Karmas through right knowledge and right conduct.
Professor of Jaina Philsophy University of Poona Poona-7
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