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are used in the making of and maintenance of this body are said to be of audarik category.
When this body took shape, it was made out of the audarik skandhas absorbed by the jiva. The baby in mother's womb grows with the nutrition obtained from the mother's body. This nutrition is made up of pudgals of the audarik category. Whatever food is taken after birth in solid or liquid form is all audarik pudgal. Whatever is absorbed through the pores as food is again audarik pudgal.
The entire visible inanimate world is made up of atoms of the audarik category. No other pudgals are visible to our eyes in this universe.
6. Vaikriya category : The bodies of jivas in the deva and naraka loka are made up of vaikriya pudgals. These pudgals cannot transform into the seven substances like blood, flesh, nerves etc. They remain only as pudgals. The bodies of deva and naraka residents do not contain blood, flesh etc. A deva body is made up of positive - good - vaikriya pudgals and a naraka body is made up of negative - evil - vaikriya pudgals.
Any human can attain this through a devoted effort and then be able to change into various types of large or small forms. The pudgals that facilitate these changing forms are vaikriya pudgals. The devas appearing on the earth take on a different form and that is done through vaikriya pudgals.
Wind too has a vaikriya body. It can also take larger or smaller forms. Thus the pudgals, that facilitate formation of various bodies, are of vaikriya category.
7. Aharaka category : Such pudgals are the least in this universe. The power, which the fourteen purvadhari great sages used, while travelling to the place where the kevali paramatma was installed, in quest of clarification of some serious doubts which arose in their minds, is the power of aharaka labdhi.
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