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CHAPTER TWO
The Types and Sub-types of the Worldly Souls :
The worldly souls are those possessed of manas or internal organ and those devoid of it. 11.
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Again, they are of the type trasa or mobile and the type sthāvara or static. 12.
The earth-bodied, the water-bodied and the plant-bodied souls belong to the type static. 13.
The five-bodied and the water-bodied souls on the one hand and the two-sensed, three-sensed, four-sensed and fivesensed souls on the other belong to the type mobile. 14.
The worldly souls are infinite in number. In brief they are divided into two types and that in two ways. The first division depends on the possession or otherwise of manas; that is to say, in this case one type includes the souls possessed of manas, the other type those devoid of it, and these two types cover the whole lot of worldly souls. The other division depends on the character of being static and that of being mobile; that is to say, in this case one type includes the static souls, the other the mobile ones, and these two types too cover the whole lot of worldly souls.
Question: But what is this manas ?
Answer: Manas is that spiritual capacity through which reflection is undertaken, and a kind of subtle atoms which are of help to this capacity in its task of reflection-they too are manas. The former is called bhava-manas or manas quâ something mental, the latter dravya-manas or manas quâ something physical. Question And what is meant by the character of being mobile and that of being static ?
Answer: To be possessed of a capacity to purposely move about or turn away from one place to another that is being mobile; not to be possessed of this capacity is being static.
Question: The souls that are declared to be devoid of manas-are they devoid of all manas, whether of the dravya type or of the bhāva type?
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