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Scanning Soul's Environment
2. The living substance can be either under bondage
(influence of atoms), i.e., affected by the cycle of births
and deaths or liberated (without bondage). 3. Only a group of atoms are visible. Other substances are
invisible. 4. Soul and atoms are the only two active ones, i.e., they
can move from one part of the Universe to the other - they generate their own level of energies and meet and depart through the complicated operation of Karmic particles. Medium of motion and medium of rest are helpful to both in making their movements and
resting 5. Soul and atoms come together and become impure and
the degree of impurity governs the cycle and quality of births/deaths. The other four substances have eternal
purity i.e. these never become impure. 6. Space, Medium of Motion and Medium of Rest
- these are singular in character and are indivisible. While souls and atoms are infinite in number, each is
indivisible. 7. All the six substances are indestructible and have no
beginning or end. These have not been created by anybody; nor can be destroyed. Soul, Medium of Motion and Medium of Rest occupy innumerable space-points. The same soul resides in an ant and elephant but it contracts or expands depending on one's physical existence. An atom occupies only a single space but a group of atoms occupy many spaces. Time always occupies a single space because of its micro nature.
To illustrate the above point, let us take an example of a human being. Our physical body is made up of atoms
