Jainism

Author(s): Herbert Warren
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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JAINISM
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things are done by us in ignorance. And as these forces are combined with the soul in a subtle way and are not separable by a mere mechanical taking apart, it follows that as long as they are in us our bodies will be with our souls. In this class there are one hundred and three energies; they give us the various factors of our objective personality.
There are five kinds of bodies which an entity can have in combination with his soul; and of these five bodies two remain with the departing soul at death, right up to the time of his final entrance into evelasting life whither he does not take these two nor any material bodies. The five kinds are:
(1) The ordinary gross physical body that we see and touch.
(2) A subtle material body which cannot ordinarily be seen, it is changeable and may be large and then small, have one shape and then another. The beings in the pleasant or angel state have this kind of body; also those in the state where there is no pleasure but pain all the time have it.
(3) A body that can be sent by the person to a Master. Only very advanced beings can assume this body; and the idea is that the soul is with it, is with the physical body also, and in the intermediate space all at the same time.
(4) A body which consumes food and, when highly developed and rendered more subtle, can be protruded from the person and burn up other things or bodies.