Atma the Self

Author(s): Punyadarshanvijay
Publisher: Sanmarg Prakashan

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The infernal beings in hell (also of min. 10,000 years' life) are subjected to tortures and pain. Their worry is only about avoiding tortures. The subhuman, vegetation and other states of living beings do not know what is tomorrow or did not know what was yesterday, whether of one sense or upto five senses, they are after food and their survival is at the mercy of others.
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ĀTMĀ
State of Human Existence :
There are three major divisions:
(A) Asañjni Sammurcchim Manushya: human beings without mind, invisible, spontaneous, innumerable, come into being (48 minutes after disposals) in bile, phlegm, urine, mucus, blood, semen, in a corpse, in impure places (very short life span). They are countless (Asankhya).
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The Self....
(B) Garbhaja Manuṣya: with mind, subtle invisible beings come into being at the union of a man and a woman. At a single union, between 2,00,000 to 9,00,000 'Garbhaja', with the exception of one or two the others perish and in addition countless Sammūrcchima and other living forms are crushed.
(C) Human being fully developed mankind enjoys an infinite advantage over all other existences. As Human beings only, can attain self-discipline-renunciation and thereby acquire salvation hence it is most precious. A 'Jiva' soul must be reborn in this human state, in order to be saved, liberated and to achieve eternal salvation, emancipation, the supreme goal.