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inanimate thing or body and not that of a soul.
Causes can be classified into six as doer, deed, means, donee, donor and supportive stage. From the real point of view, every substance has inherent ability to work for itself and all the six causation take place in the same substance independently and without interference or need for help from other substances for a particular action to take place. Every substance itself undergoes changes, within itself, by itself, for itself, from itself and on the basis and support of itself. This is the universal truth.
7. Infinite Souls and Infinite Power - There are infinite souls in the universe and not that there is one soul that pervades all souls or that all souls are - part of the Great Soul. The number of atoms is in infinite multiples of souls. The units of time are infinitely greater than units of time. The space is infinitely greater than units of time. A soul has infinite properties greater than the units of space and gets manifested when realized. The power of a soul is greater than the power of all the substances put together and is the most wonderful thing in the universe.
8. Oneness of God and Pure Soul - According to Jainism, every soul has the potentialities to become God when the true nature of pure soul is realized. God is a pure and perfect soul and not a creator, sustainer and destroyer of the universe. There are infinite souls in the state of Moksha and thus there are infinite Gods and the number ever gets increasing only. The pure soul does not cause any change anywhere as it does not produce anything else, the pure soul produces itself in infinite forms.
9. Object of Meditation - Jainism does not believe that by devotion to God through prayers/rituals, God will become happy and remove the sufferings and misery of souls in mundane existence. Nothing happens in the universe through the blessings/boons by God. The God (Pure Soul) does not descend from Moksha to help anyone. Each soul acquires one's own knowledge and achieves self-realization and achieves Moksha through the constant meditation on the true and eternal nature of soul.
10. Secular Concept - A secular concept must display certain characteristics such as eternality, purity, independence, beneficial to all, relevant to souls of all times and places, allpervading knowledge, self-based system, divine in nature, etc. The concept of pure soul has all these characteristics. The concept of pure soul with infinite properties is the most secular and scientific devoid of biases and blind beliefs. The pure soul/God is addressed by hundreds of names and these names, although seem to be different, refer to one or more attributes associated with the pure soul.
