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I am the Soul
All the inanimate substances that come to be used in our lifetime by us have been used and left by some other jiva with an audarik body. Gold, silver, jewellery, metals, various chemicals etc. are pudgals absorbed, used and released by uni-sensory prithvikaya jivas in the form of bodies. Cloth, wood, various items of furniture and other substances that are useful in our life are all pudgals absorbed and released by vegetation jivas. Ivory, pearls or other such animal-based substances are all absorbed and released by those respective jivas.
Thus the visible gamut of this universe is in fact the gamut of paramanus. All those paramanus have been absorbed and released by all the jivas of the world not once but many times. There is not one paramanu in the entire universe, which has not been absorbed or not touched by some jiva. For, every jiva of this world has been born and dead at akash pradesh-- sky space - infinite number of times. If it has not left even one sky space, then how could it have left even one paramanu that was located at that sky space?
Thus all the paramanus of this world which are absorbed by a jiva are all earlier absorbed by other jivas in the past. Those jivas have absorbed, utilised and released these paramanus. This jiva too has absorbed and released these paramanus. Again it has absorbed the same paramanus. For, in the universe, there are infinite number of jivas and paramanus, infinite wandering of the jivas in the sansar and infinite absorption of the pudgals. Now, even if one jiva absorbs one paramanu only once, it will have absorbed all paramanus. Then what is left for the other jivas? However, the jiva absorbs paramanus many times over. Thus, the same jiva repeatedly absorbs the same paramanus. The same happens with the other jivas too.
Thus, what can be inferred after deliberating over the relation of a jiva and paramanu-absorption, is that none of the paramanus that a jiva absorbs, as many times and in as many forms is ever
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