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- Five categories of Ajiva
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Ajiva (Sanskrit) is anything that has no soul or life, the polar opposite of "jīva" (soul). Because ajiva has no life, it does not accumulate karma and cannot die. Examples of ajiva include chairs, computers, paper, plastic, etc.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ajiva” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.