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(646) From practical point of view, a soul has a small or big size according to the size of the body, on account of its undergoing expansion and contraction. But from real viewpoint, it is possessed of innumerable space-points (Pradeśas).
(647) Just as a ruby thrown into milk illuminates the whole milk only, so also an embodied soul illuminates its own body only.
(648) The soul is co-extensive with cognition, cognition is co-extensive with what is to be cognised, loka and aloka are cognizable, therefore cognition is all-pervasive.
(649) Jiva is of two kinds: mundane and emancipated; both of them are sentient and endowed with consciousness; even then the mundane souls have bodies while the emancipated ones do not.
(650) The earth, the water, the fire, the air and the plants are various kinds of immiobile beings with one sense organ. The mobile beings like conches etc. are possessed of two, three, four and five sense-organs.
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