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Touch -- touches are of eight types, namely – hard, soft, heavy, light, cold, hot, smooth and rough. Shape -- the five kinds of basic shapes from which all forms are generated are -- globular, circular, triangular,
tetrahedral and cuboidal.
All the tangible properties of visible and noticeable part of the universe is due to these five fundamental properties and all possible variety that we see in the universe is because of various combinations and permutations of these fundamental properties
Soul-Bodies : Life-Lifeless Combined -
The tangible lifeless matter associates itself with the souls in two ways – 1. As karma-matter bonded with it that forms its invisible karmic body (Kārmaņa śarīra), which remains associated with it, birth after birth, as it transmigrates in its worldly existence, and 2. As the visible material body (Audārik Šarīra). What we see around us everywhere are the soul-bodies in multifarious manifestations of their material properties.
Besides the living beings that we see moving about, swimming about and flying about, there are bodies of motionless earth-bodies, water-bodies, vegetation, fire-bodies and air-- bodies as well as other mobile and immobile items composed of one or more of these bodies.
Earth-bodies – Earth--bodies are either subtle or gross as well as either developed or undeveloped. Subtle earth-bodies are of one variety only and are spread all over the world. However, the gross earth-bodies are found only in parts of the world and are, of two types - soft or hard. Soft earth is in the form of black, blue, red, yellow, white and pale clay or fine dust. The hard one is in the from of earth, gravel, sand, stone, rock, rock-salt, iron, copper, tin, lead, silver, gold, diamond, orpiment, vermilion, realgar, antimony, coral,
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