In the following characteristics of the conception of the gross elements in Jainism this point will be very clear. The gross elements excluding k a are included in pudgala. It is interesting to know that unlike the gross elements in S khya and Ved nta , the gross elements contained in pudgala are not totally insentient. But they are sentient as well as insentient also. These are sentient and non-sentient.
Earth is the body of the sentient being as well as sentient body itself.
These are elemental souls, which live and die and are born again in the same or other elemental bodies. Their sentient part increases. To explain further, a metallic stone drawn from the mine in its natural condition is sentient but as soon as we make some chemical reaction on it, it becomes non-sentient. In a similar way, the water which is flowing through a river is sentient but as soon as water is boiled it becomes non-sentient. All these are ekendriya j vas or j vas having only one sense.