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I am the Soul
145 1. Audarik Body (silcifes TTT), 2. Vaikriya Body (afshu prt), 3. Aharak Body (31Trh prt), 4. Karman Body (Firefu grí), 5. Mind (77), 6. Language (474), and 7. Respiration (their).
The worldly jiva attracts particular Pudgal Skandhas from time to time and they get transformed into particular forms. That is, the jiva is responsible for the transition of the atoms into the affected disposition.
We blame the Karmas for the imperfections that arise in us, but the transition of the Pudgal into the affected disposition of Karma was the result of the jiva's transition into the affected disposition. Our attachment and aversion attracted the Pudgal from outside and transformed them into Karma, that was the transition of the inanimate Pudgal into the affected disposition in the form of Karma. In its original natural disposition, it does not have the ability to offer any result to any jiva, but we have given that ability to the Pudgal. That is to say, before the Karma could make us imperfect, we have rendered it imperfect. Had we not developed that ability in them, they would not have given us the misery and torture.
Although the worldly life is built only when the jiva and ajiva both transit into the affected disposition, but just as they unite they also split and that leads to the Moksa of a jiva.
Taking up the existence of Atma and other substances, we studied the six substances. Let us now also consider the nine elements.
One is jiva and the other is ajiva. We have already considered these two while studying the six substances. Apart from these the seven elements are - 1. Punya (yuu), 2. Papa (979), 3. Asrava (3Taa), 4. Bandha (da), 5. Sanvar (hat), 6. Nirjara (Fofar), and 7. Moksa (F). In the ‘Tattvarthadhigam Sutra' Punya and Papa have been clubbed under Asrava. Hence, let us understand Asrava first.
Asrava is the inflow of Karmas into the soul through good and bad feelings. That which flows in through good feelings is
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