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I am the Soul
797 released by other jivas. Thus the karma paramanus absorbed and released by one another keep getting absorbed.
Our interaction with the pudgals of the bhasha – language - vargana, mano - mind - vargana and respiration vargana is also similar. What we absorb has been absorbed and released earlier by other jivas. What we release is absorbed again and again and other jivas absorb that which is released by us.
The jivas with vaikriya body, who are required to absorb vaikriya pudgals, also absorb and release in the same way. Similarly, the great sages endowed with aharak labdhis absorb the pudgals absorbed and released in the past by some other jivas. Others absorb what they release. They also absorb what they had released earlier.
Audarik vargana is one such vargana that a jiva absorbs in many ways. First of all, our body is made up of audarik pudgals. When we absorbed these pudgals they were not entirely pure. They were absorbed and released by some jivas earlier, which were now absorbed. Our body is formed out of them. After the body is formed, the paramanu skandhas that we absorb every moment from the atmosphere are either those, which were earlier released by us or by others. This body absorbs and releases many paramanus at every moment. This reaction is continuous.
The pudgal skandhas that are absorbed in the form of food by vegetarian jivas, are generated by the vegetation. We have absorbed in food-form, those pudgals, which were released by those jivas, which lived in the vegetation. It is true for the nonvegetarians too. It is an audarik body of some jiva or the other. Some jiva had absorbed it as an audarik body, which was left behind when the jiva went away from it; thereby the body that remained behind is a paramanu pudgal skandha. Therefore, it has been absorbed and released by a jiva.
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