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Jivatva' inheres in a 'Bhavya' as well as in an 'Abhavya'; so far as the principle of life is concerned, both the 'Bhavya' and the 'Abhavya' souls are similar. The Kevala-jñāna or omniscience again is present in the 'Bhavya' as well as in the 'Abhavya' in a potential form; in this respect also, the two kinds of the Jiva are not different from each other. This omniscience in potentiality becomes explicit and manifest in a 'Bhavya' soul on account of the lapse of usual time or on account of penance etc. practised by the soul, but it remains an eternal potentiality (without ever being explicit and an actual fact) in the 'Abhavya'. Consequently the 'Bhavya' attain salvation and the ‘Abhavya' can never get it. No doubt, there are many among the ‘Bhavya' souls which have turned away from the path of ‘Mokşa’ and are moving in the round of 'Samsāra', just like an 'Abhavya' being. These may be called 'Atidūra' (literally 'very distant) Bhavya's; still, there is a fundamental difference between the nature of such 'Bhavya's' and that of the 'Abhavya's'; the difference between an Atidūra Bhavya and an Abhavya may be likened to that between a chaste widow and a barren lady. Although an widow has the capacity for giving birth to a child, she cannot do so, on account of the want of any sexual connection with a male person. A barren woman, on the contrary cannot give birth to a child in spite of her contact with a male person as her nature does not permit her to bear the child. An Atidūra Bhavya remains unemancipated as it does not get the opportunity or the motive for emancipating itself: but the Abhavya would not tread the path to Mokșa, although it gets the opportunity of doing so. This is the difference between an Atidūra Bhavya and an Abhavya.
Karma is essentially opposed to the nature of the soul. The 'Audayika' Bhāva of the soul is that condition of it which is brought about by Udaya or rise of Karma. This Audayika Bhāva is of 21 kinds which are as follows:--four 'Gati's' or status viz:-(1) Deva, (2) Manuşya, (3) Nāraka, (4) Tiryança; six Lesāy's or Paints viz: (5) Kệşņa (or black), (6) Nīla (or blue), (7) Kāpota (or Pigeon-coloured), (8) Pīta
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