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nuing and shall continue for good. The liberated souls in Lokakasha from their existence point of view are infinite in number; but unitedly from their nature point of view they are all one and are all -pervading or Sarvavyapi. Let us make it clear from an exanıple. In a big hall hundreds of electric bulbs are alit. To an on-looker from outside the gate, only a flood of light will be visible and not the hundreds of existing sources of light inside the hall. So there is one common quality or nature of all the liberated souls and their quality of light is all-pervading, but from the point of view of their existence there are a number of separate entities.
The mundane or the impure soul is like a lump of gold dug out from a gold mine. It is gold mixed with foreign matter. Just as there is a chemical process by which the foreign matter is separated from the gold particles and pure gold is extracted, the foreign Karmic matter is separated from the soul itself by practising technical rules of conduct, as prescribed in Jainism.Every action of a living being, whether by thought or speech or action, causes the influx known as Áshrava of Karmic matter, but
