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The kinds among jivas
Those jivas that are in the form of fire are called Tejaskay jivas.
Those jivas that are in the form of air are called the Vayukay jivas.
Those jivas that are in the form of vegetation are called the Vanaspathikay jivas,
Thus stationary jivas are of 5 kinds. We should bear in mind the point that the creatures that live in water are different from water. Water is the body of a jiva different from them. The jivas that assume the form of water and live in that form are called the apkay jivas. Even the extremely small and minute particles of water are the bodies of jivas. When those countless particles come together we see them in the form of a drop. In the same manner, countless particles embodying jivas make up the Prithvikay, the Tejaskay, the Vayukay and the extremely small particles of the Vanaspathikay. The particles of vegetation are called Nigodhs.
Nigodh means that kind of body which contains countless jivas in itself. So, this jiva is called an ordinary Vanaspathikay or an Ananthkay (a body containing countless jivas).
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