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JAINISM The body is only temporarily a unit, being a vast multitude of cells which come and go; while the soul is one homogeneous irresolvable substance not composed of separable factors; its qualities (guna) do not come and go; it is also permanently itself, never becoming or merging into another soul. Each set of feeling, self-activity, and consciousness with all their changing modifications (paryaya) forms a separate, different, individual soul from every other changing set. These qualities (guna) are an irresolvable complexity; they (guna) never part company, become scattered, or float away from or change their point of attachment; though in their modifications (paryaya) they are ceaselessly changing.
The above named examples of this substance (jiva), men, angels, etc., are examples of it in an impure state. In them the naturally invisible soul is compounded in a very subtle way with visible, tangible matter, and is in a sense thereby rendered visible, as water is coloured by the addition of colouring matter. In its pure state the soul is invisible just as in itself water is colourless.
Thus is the existence of the first kind of substance, soul, established. And it is not one individual universal great big soul, but a mass of mutually exclusive, individual souls. We may now sub-divide substance not-alive.
SUBSTANCE NOT ALIVE
All the following real things have the common characteristic of being unconscious. There are five kinds of substance not alive, namely:
1. Matter (pudgalastikaya),
2. Space (akasastikaya), Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org
