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organic anl in-organic worliis, as has also been recently demonst, rated by Dr. Jilgrlish Chawlra Bose, the most renowned Bengalee scientist of the «lay, that, in addition to the clead pudgala-matter, there is something superphysical, both in the living and in the so-called non-living. Experiments have shown that, like plants and animals, a piece of metal responds, in a like manner, if suitably influenced. But when killed by poison, like the plant or animal, it does not responul. When this something superphysical, departs from the constitution of the living and the so-called nonliving, we say, it is nearl, by which we mean that it does not respond.
Sthāvara souls are of five varieties
1. Prithvi Kāya yester Earth-bodlied Souls. Mineral substances c. y. Stvnes, Metals-Gold, Silver, Copper, Tin, Zinc; Dia-monds, Saphire, Arsenic, Mercury, Common Salt, and various kinds of salts, carths, and stones, are examples of Prithvi Kāya substances.
2. Ap Kāya Souls 3TTET Water-boilied Souls. Surface water of rivers, ponds, lakes, seas, oceans; water of wells, deep-springs; rainwater, dew, hail, ice and-Ghanodarlhi mat-solid mass of thick watery stratum supporting the under-ground resilences of hellish beings and the celestial abodes of heavenly beings, are examples of Ap Kāya souls.
3. Agni Kaya अनिकाय Teu Kaya तेउकाय Tejas Kaya तेजस्काय Fire-bodied Souls. Live burning coals, fire of flames, bright light, sparks of fire emitting from heaps of hay or wood, fire-brand, meteor, torch, lightning and sparks of light coming from stars and planets, are examples of Agni-Kāya souls.
4. Vāyukāya ayat Air-bodied Souls. Wind-storm going high up, windl-storm with a downward direction, wind-storu moving in a circle, mild wind-breeze, great wind-storms, thick and thin air-stratum at the bottom of seas, are examples of airbodied souls. The air that we breath in, is held to be saturated with very fine animalcules.
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