76
Aptavani-8
There are infinite living entities (jivas) there. So no matter how
many living entities decrease from the infinite number, its infinity
never goes. It is not worth gauging with your intellect (buddhi),
because where this is concerned, the intellect will not reach
there. Nothing can ever diminish from infinity. No matter how
much you take out of infinity, it still stays as infinity, and that is
what you would call infinite. So there is never a loss over there!
Even in the location of ultimate liberation (Siddha gati) there is
infinity, so that even when innumerable amounts increase over
there, they still remain infinitely infinite.
Humans are the only beings in the universe that are
sankhyat (can be counted; enumerable). All other life-forms are
asankhyat (cannot be counted; innumera