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Number: Quality
Infinite
Existence
Size (svadeha parimāṇa) Adapts to the size of the
matter body-associated
with it except at the time of changing-mode (samudaghāta)
Empirical soul
Upwards
movement
(ūrdhva gamana)
Exists everywhere in the cosmos in different
forms/modes and capabilities.
Has the capability. Is the nature of pure
Soul.
Pure soul
Slightly less than the last human body it owned. Fixed.
Only at the summit of cosmos. Does not move from there.
Stationery, does not move.
Remarks
The empirical soul is born as beings in human, sub-human hellish & heavenly being accordingly exists at appropriate place in cosmos.
Pure soul just stays at the summit of cosmos, as there is no dharma and adharma dravya beyond that.
Pure soul has a natural tendency to go up but due to its bondage with karmas, does not do so always.
Veer Sagar Jain:ConveptofSoul/Self(Atmā) in Jain philosophy
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