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person using them to see. In the same way the body building has five windows of senses. Through their use the soul comprehends different things. Therefore it can not be believed that the senses themselves are able to comprehend them, In reality the soul that uses them is quite different from theni.
Though souls are infinite in number still they all have the element of life in equal proportion. Therefore commonsense tells us that all are same. With other viewpoints there may be various kinds of differences. Giving prominence to the facts of evolution and non-evolution we can divide them into two main divisions:-(i) those that have attained freedom from bondage and(ii)those that are in bondage.The philosophers like Kanada believed that by nature soul is different from God. Even after untold efforts the soul remains different from God. This is their view.Lord Mahavir does not differentiate between the two. The Lord has kept before us the highest ideal of reaching the Godhead, and he has shown us the way to attain it. According to his philosophy tho soul is not for ever the slave of God but is able to attain Godhead. Therefore the two distinctions must be accepted according to the consideration of evoluton and non-evolution. Therefore those souls that are roaming in the cycle of forty lakhs of species are souls in bondage and those are free that have attained deliverance and have become all-knowing and above all attractions due to the full development of the natural qualities like knowledge.
That soul can attain deliverance which has shed off all weaknesses that is completely unaffected by them. Once the soul is delivered and gets beyond all weaknesses it can
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