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Jîvas* and as such they are sa-cita
* Jaina Sádhûs and persons while doing the Sāmāyika Kriya, therefore, do not allow light from these two bodies to touch their bodies.
Also, if we place a lighted candle in a glass-chamber or a three-necked Wielfet Bottle from which air has been removed by an exhaust-pump, the lighted candle will be, at once, extinguished. Because a candle-flaine requires a certain quantity of air to keep it burning.
Just as, human beings, and lower animals cannot live without a sufficient quantity of pure air, in the same way, fire and flame, cannot live without air. They can-exist, only if there be a sufficient quantity of air. This is a strong argument to prove that Agni-Kāyika bodies possess life.
Electric Light With regard to electric light, the question is whether the electric light produced by a current of electricity from powerproducing machinery, is sa-cita or a-cita ?
We have electric lights in glass bulbs from which air has been removed by a special process. Glass-bulbs, from which air has been reinoved are especially necessary for the production of electric light, If air cannot be removed from these glass-bullbs, as it ought to be, there will be no light. This is not a conjectural hypothesis, but it can be readily proved by a simple scientific experment.
Some persons say, that electric light is artificially made by friction, and that no sa-cita material has been used in its preparation and that it is, therefore, a cita, But this line of argumentation is not conclusive as all varieties of electricity are
*In Aticāra (transgression) Sûtra during daily Prati-Kramaņa Kriyā the following sentence does occur viz विज-दीवातणी उच्जेही हुइVija-divā taņi ujjéhi hui-meaning to say that it is a transgression if the light of Lightning, as well as, of a simple lamp fal:s on the body of persons doing the Kriyā.
