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for example mobile soul cannot be fine; nor can it occupy same body jointly with many, thus the necessity of compatability gives us 14 following soul classes as given in gatha 72.
बादरसुहमे इंदिय विति चउरिदिय असरिणसरणी य। पज्जत्तापजत्ता एवं ते चोदसा होतं ॥७२॥ वादरसूक्ष्मैकेन्द्रियद्वित्रिचतुरिन्द्रिया संज्ञिसंज्ञिनश्च । पर्याप्तापर्याप्ता एवं ते चतुर्दश भवन्ति ॥ ७२ ॥
72. The one-sensed souls, fine and gross, the 2, 3, and 4-sensed, (the five sensed), irrational and rational - all these being developable and non-developable make 14 (classes.)
Commentary, This gatha enumerates the fourteen soul-classes which may be shown thus:
(1) Fine ] One sensed. (2) Gross (3) ... ... Two sensed. Each of these may be (4) ... ... Three sensed. (1) Developable or (5) ... ... Four sensed. (2) Non-developable. (6) Irrational Five sensed. (7) Rational , ,
One-sénsed Souls are of 5 kinds- earth-bodied, water-bodied, fire-bodied, air-bodied, and vegetable-bodied. Each of these 5 kinds is fine-bodied, as well as gross-bodied.
Fine-bodied one-sensed souls of all five kinds, permeate all space in the universe. They are incapable of causing hurt to or being hurt by others. They die of themselves, when their age-Karma is worked out. They penetrate and pass through every kind of matter, howsoever gross or solid.
Gross-bodied (Vádara) souls are those that can hurt and be hurt by other gross-bodied ones.
More-than-one-sensed souls are all gross-bodied. (Vádara). See gatha 183-184.
(Sanjni and Asanjni) - The division of rational (Sanjni) and irrational (Asanjní) Souls is applicable only to the five-sensed Souls. All other Souls are irrational.
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