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I am the Soul atma for a certain period in the form of karma and then after providing the results, detach themselves. They are again useful to the same jiva or any other jiva in the form of karmas.
2. Thought category:Jivas with minds are always thinking. Thoughts are inanimate, in the form of atoms. When a jiva thinks, it first absorbs the pudgal skandhas of thought category from the atmosphere through mind energy, only then can it think. When a thought occurs and moves on, at that very moment the pudgal skandhas of the thought category detach themselves from the jiva. They again get absorbed in the atmosphere.
3. Language category : Those jivas who are equipped with languages, express their thoughts through the language. A language that is formed with words is inanimate. Whenever any human or animal speaks a language, they first absorb the pudgals of the language category with the help of their language capability and then speak. They transform the pudgals into language and then give them up. These atoms of the language category are useful to a jiva in speaking.
4. Respiratory category : For all jivas from uni-sensory to penta-sensory, respiration is most important to live life. All jivas inhale and exhale but we cannot make out. They have different ways of breathing. Plants are uni-sensory jivas. They absorb oxygen and carbon from the air and expel it. This fact has been proved by science too. Along with the air that it breathes, a jiva also absorbs atomic skandhas of the respiratory category. With every inhalation these pudgals are absorbed and with every exhalation they are expelled.
5. Audarik category : Humans and animals have audarik body. The bodies of the sthavar, vigalendriya and panchendriya animals which we can see are all audarik bodies; a body which is by nature subject to degeneration. In fact, what is udar i.e. important body is called audarik. The pudgala skandhas which
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