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I am the Soul
All sansaric jivas have a body. Only the Siddhas do not have one. What is a body or a state beyond a body to those who do not have a body at all? Nothing. Those who do not have a body do not have any feeling or lack of feeling towards it. Therefore, Srimadji has taken into consideration the state beyond the body in the Arihant Bhagawan with a body and not the Siddha Bhagawant without a body, while offering his salutation.
The Arihant paramatma also has the same kind of body as any common sansaric jiva, made from audarik pudgals, and endowed with the disposition of decay, degeneration and destruction. All other sansaric jivas have a feeling of the body along with the body. That is to say, they have an ability to feel the happiness and sorrow of the body as their own. They can feel the transformations taking place in the body. They have a joy or sorrow for the beauty or ugliness of the body. The ratiarati of the healthiness or unhealthiness of the body affects them. Thus, the mohaniya types connected with the body are the feeling of the body - dehabhava. Those jivas who are not free from the illusion of atma, who have not yet given up the concept that body is the soul, continue to remain in dehabhava. But after the illusion is dispelled, and after the awareness that 'I am the soul' occurs, the dehabhava gradually declines. Even after the attainment of Samyak darshan, there may be a faint presence of dehabhava, yet the jiva partially experiences the state beyond the body. However, it is not continuous. It occurs sometimes, and does not at other times, because the charitra mohaniya is not completely destroyed. Unless the charitra mohaniya is completely destroyed, the state beyond the body does not arrive. Arihant paramatma has completely uprooted mohaniya; as a result their state beyond the body is natural. Srimadji salutes such Arihant Jineshwar in whom prevails this natural state beyond the body.
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