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still the unconscious 'pudgala' that has solidified first as 'manah vargana' forming a mind going further to still a grosser level of forming a brain) and lastly meditation. 'samudghata and shaileshikarana' bursting ultimately into 'Moksha’ the final emancipation, In these austerities, all the passions such as of anger, pride, possessiveness, greed, jealousy, revenge etc. will have to be transformed as love, compassion, sharing, co-operation, selflessness etc. It is thus clear therefore that the extent of the observance of these vows and austerities will determine the state of faith in seven tattvas and accordingly the state of 'samyaktva' will be attained.
According to Jainism, the entire creation consists of only two realities-Jiva and Ajiva-sentient life and insentient things. There is however pure consciousness which is beyond these realities and the entire creation. It is the unmanifest Divine where Siddhas, Tirthankaras and other countless souls who have totally emancipated themselves from the creation cycles take their abode for eternity. In the creation are found only all the embodied souls viz. Jiva and insentient things viz. Ajiva.
Jiva reality has five categories, viz monosensic, bisensic, trisensic, quadrasensic and pentasensic living beings and the Ajiva reality also has five categories viz Pudgala, Dharma, Adharma; Akasha, and Kala. Both in Jiva and Pudgala categories of Ajiva however, there are innumerable levels of existences. In monosensic beings there is also a category called 'Nigod Kaya' Jiva where often souls are joined together having nuirition, respiration, pain, pleasure, etc., commonly felt by all together. Over millions of years, individual souls are evovled therefrom and thereafter over ages finally passing through innumerable births and deaths the soul finally takes up a body of a human being. In recent years, chemistry, biology, botany. scientists have made discoveries which substantiate what the Jaina 'Sarvagnas' have seen and propounded on this subject since ages unknown. In a book entitled "The Turning Point"
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