________________
Letter 1 and as a result of which they can decide what is right and wrong, experience pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow are Atma.
For instance, when one says 'I don't understand' or 'I understand ', the one who acknowledges this understanding or not understanding is the knower and this knower is the Atma. When this Atma is in conjunction with the body, this conjur.ction is called Living Being Frita. Even biologist call it a Living Being and not only as Jeev or Life.
This Atma has the power of knowing and cognising ( m ) as against the body which does not possess such characteristic of knowing or cognising. It cannot experience pleasure and pain.
This conjunction of soul and body is for a limited duration. When this time bound conjunction or union is over, in common words we call it death. The important thing to note here is though the union of soul and body has ended, neither the soul nor the body ceases to exist.
Because the soul continues to exist, and comes in contact with some other body. And the body from which the soul has been separated still continues to exist in the form of matter. Traditionally this new union of : body and soul is called Birth. And this duration from Birth to Death is lifespan (anye ) i.e. Bhav ( a ). When it is in human form we call it Human Manifestation get veta or uge 4a.
Here one has to understand that this manifestation or modification i.e. Paryay wuty of the soul in human form or any other embodied form is not the true manifestation of the soul. Instead it is a union of the matter ( in the form of a body yrit) and the soul (uita ). The characteristics of this union are different from the characteristics of the soul in its pure form. This soul in the union has the quality and ability to know, to believe and to experience.
This soul which has above qualities while in conjunction with the body thinks that this union is its real existence and all the characteristics and qualities of this union are his own qualities.
Therefore this soul does not realise that in fact it has own separate existence and characteristics which are different than those of the Human form ( body + soul). You see that even though soul in this form thinks so, in reality it does not loose its characteristic of existence.
Due to such wrong beliefs or misconceptions its knowledge also becomes erroneous. And its conduct and behaviour also becomes the same. In short its belief, its knowledge and conduct all are on the wrong path. It is exactly what the Jain scriptures describe as Mithya-Darshan मिथ्यादर्शन, Mithya Dnyan मिथ्याज्ञान.and Mithya-Charitra मिथ्याचारित्र (false . belief, false knowledge and false conduct ). And as an outcome of this,
