Kinds of Saṃsāri Jīvas (Transmigrating Souls) as per Jainism. According to Sacred Jain text, Ācārya Pujyapada’s Sarvārthasiddhi: Immobile beings (sthāvara jīvās) possess the four vitalities of the sense-organ of touch, strength of body or energy, respiration and life-duration. The two-sensed beings have six (life principles), namely the sense of taste and the organ of speech in addition to the former four. The three-sensed beings have seven with the addition of the sense of smell. The four-sensed beings have eight with the addition of the sense of sight. In the animal world the five-sensed beings without mind have nine life principles with the addition of sense of hearing. Those endowed with mind have ten, with the addition of the mind. The worm, the ant, the bee, and the man, etc., have each one more sense than the preceding one.
The worm and similar creatures possess the sense of taste in addition to the sense of touch. The ant and similar creatures the sense of smell in addition to the senses of touch and taste. The bee and creatures of that class possess the sense of sight in addition to the senses of touch, taste and smell. Man and the beings similar to him possess the sense of hearing in addition to the former four.
Excerpted from: Jain, S.A., Reality, p. 62-63, 67 (Non-copyright).
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