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THE PRAOTICAL PATH.
the evolution of senses, living beings fall under the following five classes :--
(1) one-sensed beings who possess only the sense of touch, such as vegetables;
(2) two-sensed beings, i. e., those which possess touch and taste both, such as protozoa and certain varieties of shell-fish;
(3) three-sensed beings, who also enjoy the sense of smell in addition to touch and taste, such as lice, bugs and ants ;
(4) four-sensed beings who are endowed with all the senses except hearing; and
(5) five-sensed beings. . In addition to their appropriate or specific senses, all living beings possess three kinds of forces of life, namely, âyuh, bodily strength and the power of breathing. The power of communicating with others, which in the higher grades of life assumes the form of speech, is enjoyed by the two-sensed and other higher types, while mind is a distinguishing feature of the five-sensed type alone, though all jivas belonging to that class are not endowed with it. These ten kinds of forces --five senses, ayuh, bodily strength, breathing, speech and mind-are called the ten práņas.
Now, all the five kinds of living beings are souls capable of feeling pain, though not always in anticipation of injury, for that kind of pain is felt only by those of the fifth class who evolve out a mind---men, monkeys, dogs and the like. All kinds of living beings, however, possess the kârmâna and the taijasa shariras whose separation from the body of gross matter
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