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THE ESSENCE OF JAINA SCRIPTURES
Now he discerns that the self is not conveyor of a material mass:
II.76. The universe is in all directions densely packed, as roomfilled, with material bodies, fine and gross, unadaptable and adaptable. (168)
Since the universe is of itself in all directions densely packed with material bodies — evolved in fineness and evolved in grossness; in case of not excessive fineness and grossness, possessed of potentiality for evolving as karmic-matter; in case of excessive fineness and grossness, lacking the same; by reason of being qualified by a power of room-filling not impeding one another—therefore it is discerned that the soul is not conveyor of a material mass.
Now he discerns that the self is not agent of the karma-condition of material masses:
II.77. Aggregates adaptable to karma-condition, when they meet with a soul's evolution, attain the state of karman; but they are not made to evolve by the soul. (169)
Since, in dependence upon an exterior means, namely the mere evolution of a soul, located in the same spot, material aggregates, being themselves equipped with a potentiality of evolving in the karmacondition” even without a soul to evolve them, evolve of themselves in the karma-state, therefore it is discerned that the soul is not agent of the karma-condition of material masses.
Now he discerns that the self is not maker of the body consisting of material substance evolved in the karma-condition:
II.78. Such and such material aggregates, having attained a karma condition, give rise, further, to the soul's bodies, in its transitions to other bodies. (170)
Whatever material aggregates, merely on the occasion of a soul's evolution, evolve of themselves in karma-condition, the same, in dependence upon the soul's transition to another body in the course of its beginningless, continuous, activity, themselves give rise to bodies. Hence it is discerned that the soul is not the maker of the body, which consists of material substance evolved in karma-condition.
Now he discerns that the self is not body:
II.79. The physical, the plastic, the magnetic (electric), the emanatory and the karmana bodies all consist of material substance. (171)
Since the physical (audarika), the plastic (vaikriyika), the emanatory
