Gommatasara Jiva Kanda

Author(s): Nemichandra Siddhant Chakravarti, J L Jaini
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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city to be able to take one's body from one place to another divides souls in the universe into Immobiles, like stones in quarry, vegetables, trees, etc., and mobiles like men, animals, birds, etc.
Observation will show that all one-sensed souls are immobile, incapable of voluntary change of place; and that all the other souls are mobile, who can at will run away from danger or death.
The classes are said to be 14 in Gátha 72 : 57 ir Gáthá 73: 98 in Gáthá 79 and 80 ; and 570 in Gáthá 78. But we can classify them into 406 soul-classes, also, as below:
406 Soul-Classes of Mundane Souls. Suh-human, One-Sensed having the sense of Touch only. Earth-bodied-Soft
Hard Water bodied Fire-bodied
Each one of Air-bodied
the 7 is Fine Vegetable
or Gross, Non-one-souled
... 7*2-14 Ever-one-body-many-souled (Nitya-Nigoda)
Each one Other-one-body-many souled
of the 27 is (Itara-Nigoda)
developOne souled
able, Host-one-souled -Trunk
15 potenCreeper ...
tially Plant
develop
able, or Tree
totally Root
undeve
lopable; Non-host-one-souled-Trunk
therefore Creeper ...
27 * 3-81 Plant Tree
Root ... Two-Sensed having Touch and Taste ... Three-Sensed having Touch, Taste and Smell Four-Sensed having Touch, Taste, Smell & Sight ...
Sub-humans, (42), as per detail below :In Work Region, Five-sensed Irrational.
Aquatic 1 Terrestrial 2
Aerial Rational.
Aquatic Terrestrial 5 Aerial
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