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the operation of the material karmas bound previously. It is also called the doer of karmic bondage which is really effected owing to soul vibrations and passions. It is also called the doer of houses, pots, cloths, etc., as they are caused through the activities of its body, mind and speech. From the real point of view, the soul is the doer of its own pure thought-activities.
V. Enjoyer-From the practical point of view, it is the enjoyer of pleasure and pain caused by the effect of the past karmas. Really, it is the enjoyer of its own real bliss.
VI. Has the size according to the body-From the real point of view, it has innumerable spacial units equal to this universe, i.e., it is as wide as the universe; but from the practical point of view, it contracts and expands according to the body it occupies owing to the effect of karmas; thus it has the size of the body it occupies. There are some special causes, when this mundane soul, while living in the body expands and goes to some distance like the electric current and then again contracts to the size of its original body. Its real size is not material, but it is a non-material conscious one.
VII. It wanders in the world :--This soul owing to the effects of its meritorious and demeritorious karmas wanders in the world in the four conditions of life, celestial, hellish, sub-human and human. Beings from one-sensed to five-sensed animals are all sub-human.
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