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674 / Go Ma Jeev Kaasht
Because the soul, which is endowed with such power, causes the transformation of the pudgal in terms of speech, therefore the dravya speech is also pudgalic. Secondly, it is also known from the fact that the dravya speech is the object of the auditory sense that the formation is pudgalic.
Doubt - Why is speech not the object of other (different) senses?
Solution - The olfactory sense perceives smell, it does not obtain taste etc., similarly, other senses do not have the ability to perceive speech.
Doubt - Are words abstract?
Gatha 605-608
Solution - No, because words are perceived by the tangible senses, they are stopped by tangible walls etc., their destruction is seen by adverse wind etc., and their suppression is seen due to other reasons, from this the tangibility of words is proved.
Mind is of two types, dravya mind and bhav mind. The bhav mind, which is characterized by attainment and use, arises from the support of pudgals, therefore it is pudgalic. And the mind which is transformed into the form of mind due to the destruction and cessation of knowledge-obscuring and vigor-hindering karmas, and due to the cause of the goshang karma, which are beneficial to the soul in the face of the use of contemplation and remembrance of the qualities and defects of the pudgal, is also pudgalic.
Doubt - Mind is an independent dravya. It is devoid of transformation like form etc. and is only an atom, therefore it is wrong to consider it pudgalic.
Solution - This kind of doubt is wrong. Is that mind connected to the soul and the senses or unconnected? If it is unconnected, then it cannot be beneficial to the soul and cannot help the senses. If it is connected, then it cannot benefit other regions except the region in which it is connected to the transformation. Therefore, it is proved that the mind is not atomic, but is present pervading all the regions of the soul.
Doubt - There is a quality called adrishta, under its influence this mind wanders like a wheel of fate in all regions?
Solution - No, because the quality called adrishta does not have such power. Because it is an abstract and inactive quality of the soul. Therefore, this quality is also inactive, therefore it is unable to initiate action elsewhere. It is seen that a particular dravya called air, being itself active and tactile, is the cause of pulsation in plants, but it is characterized, therefore it cannot be the cause of action.
Contrary to that
The soul, which is expected to arise, is contained in the body, the air which is expelled by the vigor-hindering and knowledge-obscuring karmas, and the ango-pang karma, the exhalation characteristic of that air is called prana