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I am the Soul
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That the jiva believes itself to be the doer of karmas, and in practice the maker of many substances, is out of its ignorance. In reality, there is no feeling of creation in the jiva. The jiva does not possess the ability of doing anything about the transformation of the substances happening in this world. In spite of all the five astikayas occupying the same space, they can neither get merged with each other nor take the form of one another. But the jiva has the motivation of dharma, adharma and akash. Here it is interesting to observe a principle. Ordinarily it is said that one substance cannot do a thing to another substance. What does this mean? The meaning to be taken here is that one substance does not transform into another. It does not forsake its own quality and disposition to take on the form and disposition of another. But the scheme of the entire Universe runs on the quality of substances motivating each other. This motivation may be with or without purpose, but there always is one substance motivating another.
Let us consider; the disposition of Dharmastikaya is to provide momentum. It becomes instrumental in providing momentum to jiva and pudgal. In other words, jiva and pudgal attain momentum due to the motivation of Dharmastikaya. If we were to forcefully argue that one substance couldn't do a thing to another substance, then no jiva or pudgal would be able to move. They would always be stationary. Why! Even after leaving the last body occupied, the free jiva needs the help of Dharmastikaya to reach the pinnacle of the universe. Had Dharmastikaya not been there, the Siddha jiva after attaining anantavirya, would have been hovering somewhere near the body from which it had attained the Siddha state.
Indeed, Adharmastikaya provides stability. Had the jiva or pudgala not attained stability with the motivation of Adharmastikaya, no jiva or pudgala would have been stationary in this universe. Everything would be moving. Not just that!
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