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STAGES OF SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
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4. Duration of life (āyuh). . Beings which have only these four forces of life are vegetables, trees, earth-beings, water-beings, air-beings, and firebeings.
Beings with two sense-organs have six prāņas, namely, the above four and also :
5. Sense of taste 6. Force of speech
They have the means or power of communicating among themselves, which can be called speech. Shell beings and protozoa,
Beings with three sense-organs have seven prāņas, namely, the above six and also :
7. Sense of smell Ants, lice and bed bugs are instances of such beings.
Beings with four senses have 8 prāņas, namely, the above seven and also :
8. Sense of sight Wasps, bees, scorpions are instances of such living beings.
Beings with five senses are of two kinds, the first kind have no mind (manas, mind as meant in the Jaina philosophy), and these beings have nine prānas, namely, the above eight and also :
9. Sense of hearing and the second kind have mind as meant in the Jaina philosophy and they possess ten prānas, namely the above nine and also :
10. Force of mind.
Beings with all the five senses of touch, taste, smell, seeing and hearing, and force of body, force of speech, respiration and life duration (äyuh) are generated by the perspiration of some persons during sleep. These beings with five senses but having no mind are very minute.
We see by the above the order in which the senses are developed. A two sense living being, for instance, never has smell, sight and hearing, it has always touch and taste; and so on. The living beings which come under the second kind of five
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