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**Description of the Five Astikayas of the Soul**
**General Meaning with Anvaya (Logical Order):**
(Jivo) This soul is a living being, (Cheda) conscious, (Uvogavisesido) possessing use, (Pahu) a master, (Karta) a doer, (Ya Bhota) and an enjoyer. (Dehamatto) It has a body of a certain size, (Nahimutto) it is not material in essence, and (Kammasamjutto) it is associated with karma. It possesses these nine qualities.
**Specific Meaning:**
This soul lives through pure consciousness, knowledge, and other pure life-forces, according to pure perception. It also lives through impure consciousness, such as the life-forces of karma and its fruits, according to impure perception. Similarly, it lives through the life-forces of matter, according to the non-conventional, non-real, and practical perception. It has lived, is living, and will live, therefore it is a living being.
This soul is conscious due to pure knowledge and consciousness according to pure perception, and due to karma and its fruits, according to impure perception. It possesses use due to pure use, such as perfect vision and perfect knowledge, according to pure perception, and due to impure use, such as perception, knowledge, and other life-forces of karma, according to impure perception. It is a master due to the ability to transform into pure results, such as liberation and its causes, according to pure perception, and due to the ability to transform into impure results, such as the causes of the cycle of birth and death, according to impure perception. It is a doer due to pure emotions, according to pure perception, due to emotions and karma, such as attachment, aversion, etc., according to impure perception, and due to actions of matter, such as knowledge-obscuring karma, etc., and external actions, such as the body, according to non-conventional, non-real, and practical perception. It is an enjoyer due to pure happiness, born from the pure soul, free from attachment, according to pure perception, due to happiness and sorrow, born from the senses, according to impure perception, and due to the enjoyment of external objects, such as food and drink, which are the causes of happiness and sorrow, according to non-conventional, non-real, and practical perception.
It is the size of the universe, according to pure perception, and countless times the size of the universe, according to practical perception. However, it is the size of the body, according to practical perception, due to the arising of the name-karma called "body." It is not material in essence, according to pure perception, and it is free from karma. However, it is material and associated with karma, according to non-conventional, non-real, and practical perception, due to the association with karma from the beginning of time.
This is the explanation of the words and their meanings according to different perceptions. Now, we will explain the meaning according to different viewpoints. Here, the explanation of the soul is given from the perspective of a student of the Charvaka philosophy.
**Meaning of the Quoted Verse:**
These nine examples are for those who do not believe in the soul and rebirth.
(1) **Vatsa (Child):** A child starts sucking its mother's breast immediately after birth. This is impossible without past impressions. Therefore, the soul and its past birth are proven.
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