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==Jiva==
The word Jiva has two meanings in the Sanskritic tongues—“living creature”1 creature” and the spirit individualised and upholding the living being in its evolution from birth to birth. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-jivatman-in-other-indian-systems#p1</ref>
That substance is the self of the man called in European thought the Monad, in Indian philosophy, Jiva or Jivatman, the living entity, the self of the living creature. This Jiva is not the mental ego-sense constructed by the workings of Nature for her temporary purpose. It is not a thing bound, as the mental being, the vital, the physical are bound, by her habits, laws or processes. The Jiva is a spirit and self, superior to Nature. It is true that it consents to her acts, reflects her moods and upholds the triple medium of mind, life and body through which she casts them upon the soul’s consciousness; but it is itself a living reflection or a soul-form or a self-creation of the Spirit universal and transcendent.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-ego#p6</ref>