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in the record. At this answer, nobody argues. His answer becomes acceptable. No any wise person argues that at present he is ‘residing in the court premises, therefore, the above mentioned answer is incorrect as the address given by the person is not the address of the court premises. However, some ignorant persons with very limited intellect may fail to understand his answer. In the same way, a person in 5th Gunasthāna (or for that matter any SamyagDrști) realizes and recognizes very well that the residential address of his soul is his eternal soul (Paramārtha or Samaya) itself. The spiritually advanced persons recognize the value and truthfulness of this realization. However, spiritually ignorant persons see only the external actions of body and mind and may either fail to think of soul or may say that the soul is anchored to the litigation in the court of the law. A spiritually ignorant person (MithyāDrști) either does not recognize oneself as a soul or identifies himself with his physical and psychic actions dependent on the externals. Thus he is ignorant about the Self (soul) that may be anchored to the Self (soul) even while the personality is doing worldly tasks. It may be noted that though a MithyāDrști also is a soul but he is not aware of the same. He does not recognize himself as an eternal soul. He does not realize that the residential address of his soul is the soul itself. In other words he is ignorant about it and, therefore, he always realizes that he is a wanderer; he is not anchored to the soul. जीवादीसद्दहणं सम्मत्तं तेसिमधिगमो णाणं । II/IT416 4U GHI 4 HIGHE ||155|| Jīvādīsaddahaņam sammattam tesimadhigamo ņāņam. Rāgādīpariharaṇam caraņam eso du mokkhapaho. ||155|| जीवादिश्रद्धानं सम्यक्त्वं तेषामधिगमो ज्ञानम् ।
