Jain Thoughts And Prayers

Author(s): Kanti V Maradia
Publisher: Yorkshire Jain Foundation

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Humans
Animals
Roots
Plants
Minerals/Water /Air/Fire
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5 -1
4x10
3x10
2x10-1
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5x10
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Perfect Souls
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Spiritually Higher
Average Man
Criminals
five-sensed
four-sensed
three-sensed
two-sensed
one-sensed (concentrated) one-sensed
Subtle
micro-organisms
Micro-organisms
Insentient objects
The life-axis giving the degree of the soul's purity for different beings. (see Mardia K. V., 2002)
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Delusive State of Human Beings The Parable of Honey-drops (Madhu Bindu).
(From Mural painting in Adhyatama Sadhana Kendra, Delhi)
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