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Group-souled. They are again known to be of two kinds grogs or fine. Their bodies are gross or fine through the operation of gross or fine body-making Karmas. Obstructive ( TTT ghāta ) body is gross, while non-obstructive are A-ghāta body is fine. Gross bodies are called destructible or obstructive, because they alone can destroy each other.
Fine bodies are indestructible or non-obstructive, because nothing can kill them, and they can kill nothing. They die a natural death at the exhaustion of their Age-Karma. They pervade throughout the whole universe.
Nigoda Living Beings. « Nigoda ” beings are of two kinds,--fine and gross. Fine Nigoda Living beings exist everywhere in the Universe--from the nether-most hell to the highest region of the eternally Liberated Souls-( 14 Rajus high ). They are one-sensed, both dovelopable and undevelopable; they take birth and die eighteen times in the short interval of time taken by one pulse-beat of an average human being. Of course, being souls, they have knowledge; but this knowledge preceded by its conation, is limited to the sense of touch. These Nigoda souls are-neither earthbodied, water--bodied, fire-bodied nor air-bodierl. They belong to the vegetable sub-class of the Immobile Class of Souls. They have one body ocoupied by many souls, which are born, which live, and which die together.
These group-souls are of two kinds:1. Those that have never left Nigoda. They are called Nitya
forret ) Nigoda ever-one-by-many souled TeaT. 2. Those that left Nigoda and became embodied in higher
forms of soul-classes; but have come down to Nigoda once more. These are called Itara Vigola racfarent or Caturgati
Nigoda watafortes One body-many-souled. These two are also called Sadhārnna or Common or Groupsouled-classes of vegetables.
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