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“ Biologists and Zooloyists alone can say if it is capable of heing subjected to experiments.
But the briefest Jaina account is this - The newly-born-Soul is incomplete, hut it has the capacity to become comptete, in assimilution, boly, senses, respiration, spaech, ani minl. The completion of the capicity to develop these six processes, makes the six Paryāptis.
When a soul goes from one con lition of existence to another, it assimilates the molecules of Ahāraka TITIT# Matter and also of specch-matter in the case of more than one senset ant of minil-matter, in the cise of rational beings, The āhāraka molecules form the physical boly of humin and sub-hunan beings; the fluid-Vaikriyika fr-transformable body of celestial ani hellish beings, and the assimilative boly in case of saints. These molecules must be reluced to a primary solid and liquirt form. The completion of the capacity to do it, is the Assimiliative SITETCE-Ahāraka-Development.
The solid portions develop into bone anl harl substances, and the liquid into bloot, bile etc,--the fluid substances of the body. The completion of thecapacity to do it, is the S'arira arft Body Development. The molecular matter assimilated by the soul is further formed into sense-organs; the completion of the capacity to do it, is the Indriya çfast-Sense-Development. The wear and tear of the body, is made up by ceaseless Respiration. The completion of the capacity for respiration is Aņapāņa BATTUT Development. The completion of the capacity to form speech-molecules and mind-molecules into speech and mind, is respectively the Speech and Mind Development.
The beginning of the acquiring of four, five or six capacities is simultaneous, but their completion is in the order in whioh they are named above. And from the first kind, each successive development takes more time to complete itself than its predecessor. But each one indivirlually, and all the six ocllectively never
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