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The **Shri Sutra Kritanga Sutra** is not created by anyone, it is not beginningless and does not have a definite shape, like the sky. Therefore, whatever substance is beginningless and has a definite shape, it has a doer - it is done by someone, this is the pervasiveness - the principle of pervasiveness. Where there is no pervasiveness - where there is no pervader, there is also no pervaded - there is also no pervaded. Therefore, if the body is not created by anyone, then it cannot be beginningless and have a definite shape. This should be connected everywhere and also - there is definitely a controller of the senses, because the senses are in the form of instruments or means. In this world, whatever instruments or means there are, there is definitely a controller of them. The potter's stick used to rotate the wheel is an example of this. The stick is the means, the potter is not its controller, it cannot be the instrument or means. The sky is an example of this. The sky has no controller, therefore the sky is not an instrument or means. The soul is the controller of the senses. It is separate from those senses. There must be a receiver of those senses and objects, because there is a relationship between the receiver and the received - the receiver and the received. Wherever there is a receiver and received, there must be some substance that receives. For example, a piece of iron and a hammer can be taken. The hammer can be considered as the sense organ and the piece of iron as the object. The blacksmith is their controller. This example can be connected with the sense, object and their receiver, the soul.
Therefore, the soul is separate from the senses, which are the instruments or means by which the objects are received. That is, there must be an enjoyer of this body, because just as rice etc. are enjoyable, so is this body an enjoyable substance. In the previous example, the potter is a material, impermanent and composite substance. Seeing this, why should the soul not be material, impermanent and composite? It is not right to doubt this, because worldly souls are bound with karma, so they are considered to be material etc. to some extent.
It is also wrong to say that beings do not go to the next world, do not take rebirth, because a child born on the same day shows a desire and effort to drink milk from its mother's breasts. This knowledge or tendency is due to some previous knowledge, because every desire that arises - knowledge, there are other desires and knowledge before it. The child's knowledge is an example of this. A child born on the same day does not put its mouth to the breast until it knows, until it is certain that this is the breast, which is unfamiliar to it. This proves that the child has some knowledge. That partial knowledge is due to other knowledge, that is, there was other knowledge before it. That other knowledge is the knowledge of the other world. It is according to the knowledge or experience gained in the other world. This proves that the being is transmigratory, goes to the next world, takes birth in the other world.
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