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Jaina Philosophy and Religion
of living earth are attacked by cutting, colliding, piercing, baking, etc., souls depart from them leaving them dead and soulless. Similarly, when water is boiled or mixed with sugar, etc., it becomes dead and soulless. And even different forms of vegetation become dead and soulless when they are cut, burnt, etc.
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The two-sensed souls have two sense-organs only and these two senseorgans are invariably the tactile and the gustatory. An intestinal worm, a microbe found in water, a leech, an earth worm, etc., fall in the group of two-sensed souls. The three-sensed souls have three sense-organs only and these three sense-organs are invariably the tactile, the gustatory and the olfactory. A louse, a bug, a large black ant, a large red ant, etc., are the instances of the three-sensed souls. The four-sensed souls have four sense-organs only and these four sense-organs are invariably the tactile, the gustatory, the olfactory and the visual. A fly, a mosquito, a locust, a scorpion, a bee, etc., are the instances of the four-sensed souls. The fivesensed souls have all the five sense-organs, that is, the above-mentioned four plus the auditory organ. These five-sensed souls are divided into four classes a class of humans, that of animals including birds, reptiles, serpents, mongoose, etc., that of gods dwelling in heavens and that of infernal beings dwelling in hells.
The class of mobile souls' comprises the two-sensed, the three-sensed, the four-sensed and the five-sensed souls.
Thus, all the transmigratory souls are exhausted by the two classes, viz. one of the mobile souls and the other of the immobile souls, when both are taken together.
INSENTIENT REAL (AJÏVA)
All the objects that are bereft of sentiency fall under the class of insentient reals. There are five insentient reals- medium of motion (dharma),
1. The air-bodied and fire-bodied souls move from one place to another. Thus, in respect of motion they are similar to the souls having two or more sense-organs. So, sometimes they are figuratively or secondarily considered to be mobile. But primarily and actually they are not mobile, because though they exhibit motion, their motion is not purposive, that is, it is not undertaken by them with a specific purpose of attaining pleasure and avoiding pain. This purposive motion is possible only in the case of souls having two or more sense-organs. So, all one-sensed souls are immobile, because their motion is not voluntary. On the other hand, the souls having two or more sense-organs are mobile because they exhibit voluntary motion.
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