Jaina Philosophy

Author(s): Mohanlal Mehta
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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JAINA PHILOSOPHY : AN INTRODUCTION
SOUL (Jīva)
Worldly (Saṁsārin)
Liberated (Mukta)
Mobile (Trasa)
Immobile (Sthāvara)
Living in the bodies of earth
water
Five-sensed (man etc.) Four-sensed (bee etc.) Three-sensed (ant etc.) Two-sensed (worm etc.)
fire air
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vegetable
Those jāvas that possess five sense-organs, viz., those of touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing are called five-sensed jīvas. Those possessing four sense-organs, viz., those of touch, taste, smell and sight are four-sensed. Having three senseorgans, viz., those of touch, taste and smell are known as three-sensed souls. Those who possess only two sense-organs, viz., those of touch and taste are called two-sensed jīvas. The immobile jīvas possess only one sense-organ, viz., that of touch. They are known as prthvīkāya, apkāya, tejaskāya, vāyukāya and vanaspatikāya. They possess the forms of earth, water, fire, air and vegetable. Pudgalāstikāya :
It has already been mentioned that 'pudgala' is nothing but matter. Matter is 'rūpin'. In other words, it has touch, taste, smell and colour. It consists of numerable, innumerable and infinite parts according as we consider the different molecular combinations. The indivisible elementary particle of matter is aņu (atom). It has only one pradeśa because the criterion of pradeśa itself is based on aņu. One atom
1. Niyama-sära, 35.