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I am the Soul
- atoms. The natural disposition of the paramanus is to meet and scatter. The viscosity and the dryness in the paramanus attaches and releases other paramanus. One paramanu attaches to another, two-three or more paramanus get together, or infinite number of paramanus get together to form a skandha. When a skandha of infinite number of paramanus is formed, it becomes visible to us, not earlier. Just as the skandha was formed with paramanus attaching to each other one by one, in fact, at every moment new paramanus come and join the skandha while those other paramanus in the skandha break and go away. This is a natural reaction in the world of paramanus. It continues naturally. Many types of substances are created as a result of this reaction.
All visible, invisible substances and those, which come to be used by us, are all groups of paramanus, and nothing else. We absorb these groups in different ways. We absorb the eight types of pudgal categories, which have been defined, in those respective ways, use them and release them. All the jivas of the universe have been absorbing and releasing pudgal pindas and releasing them from infinite time. This action has never stopped nor will it ever. It has been happening incessantly and will continue so.
Let us consider the absorption of pudgal pindas that happens in a jiva.
There are infinite karma varganas in this universe. The jiva attracts them through its feelings of attachment etc., and is bound by it and thereby the varganas transform into karma. The karmas, remain with the atma for a certain time in the form of karmas, provide the results and separate from the atma. They get mixed up with other karma varganas in the atmosphere. A jiva might again absorb the same karma paramanus as karma or it might absorb other karma paramanus, which have been earlier absorbed and released by other jivas. In the same way, other jivas too absorb and release the karma paramanus earlier absorbed and
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