Agam 15 Upang 04 Pragnapana Sutra Part 02

SR No.: 001064
Original Sutra Author: Shyamacharya
Author: Punyavijay, Dalsukh Malvania, Amrutlal Bhojak
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay
Publication Year: 1971
Total Pages: 934
Language: Prakrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Agam, Canon, Metaphysics, & agam_pragyapana
File Size: 16 MB

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All the three types of dwelling places of each of the various classes and sub-classes of living beings are described here. But let us note that in the case of the class of liberated beings (siddha) there occurs the discussion of svasthana only. It is so because there is no possibility of the other two types of dwelling places in connection with the beings belonging to this class. The liberated souls have no 'upapăta' and hence no dwelling place of upapata type. Other living beings have upapāta because before they reach the new birth-places the karmas determining personality, social status and life-span of those living beings in their new births start operating with the result they assume the name of that class of existence in which they are to be born and migrate from the place of death to that of new birth. But the liberated souls are free from these karmas. Hence they are not born as siddhas. They simply realise their true pristine nature. And that is their final and highest achievement. Again, when the living beings other than siddhas migrate to their new brith-place their journey involves their contact with the different spacepoints of Space substance. Hence those space-points in whose contact the living beings come in their migration to their new birth-place are regarded as their dwelling places. But neither the journey of the siddhas to the highest region of Loka called Siddhasilā—the journey which starts as soon as all the karmas are dissociated and ends for ever as soon as the region of Siddhasila is reached-nor their movement in that highest region involves contact with the space-points of Space substance. Hence the movement of the siddha is called asp?sadgati.2 Thus though a liberated soul (siddha) moves, it does not come into contact with the spacepoints and consequently those space-points could not be called its dwelling place. So the possibility of upapăta-sthāna is ruled out in the case of liberated souls. Now let us see as to why there is no possibility of the third type of dwelling place, viz. samudghätasthāna in their case. Samudghăta-sthāna is one of the results of karmas. Hence it is possible only in the case of souls bound up with karmas. But liberated souls, being what they are, are completely dissociated from karmas. Hence they could not have samudghata-sthāna. So, the discussion of this particular dwelling place of the liberated souls has absolutely no scope. Thus there being the possiblity of svasthana only in the case of liberated soul, we find in this Pada at this juncture the discussion of that sthana only.
Generally it can be said that one-sensed beings are found
2. Bhagavati ś. 14 U. 4. Bhagavatīsāra p. 313. Upadhyāya Yaśovijayaji has
written a small tract having the title 'Asprśadgativada'.