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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Again, this chapter contains secondary information about the adhyavasayasthanas (grades of mental states). We are told that mental states, auspicious as well as inauspicious, that are found in the 24 classes of living beings are of asamkhyāta types or grades. This much information is available in Prajñāpanā. But Satkhaṇḍāgama deals with this point at length. Extensive exposition of the adhyavasayasthānas (mental states) responsible for the different durations of karmic bondage occurs in the first Culikā. Especially the following points are discussed in this Culikā: the possesser of mental states responsible for the karmic bondage from the sarvastoka (lowest) to the sarvotkṛṣṭa (highest), degrees of sankleśa (mental impurity and purity), relative numerical strength of the living beings having this or that mental state. The entire second Culikā is devoted to the discussion about the different mental states that are responsible for the bondage of the different durations. After this in the section called Bhāvavidhana there occur two culikāsone dealing with the relative numerical strength of the persons on upaśamaśreņi and those on kṣapakaśreņi and the other expounding extensively different mental states responsible for the bondage of different intensity.
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Four alternatives are possible in the case of sexual behaviour of celestial beings :
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have sexual behaviour. have no sexual behaviour. have sexual behaviour. have no sexual behaviour.
But we are told that it never happens that though the gods are with goddesses yet they do not have any sexual behaviour. That is, out of the four alternatives mentioned above the second one is quite impossible. The classes of Bhavanapati gods, Vāṇavyantara gods, Jyotiska gods, Saudharma gods and Iśāna gods (the last two being the sub-classes of Vaimānika gods) do contain goddesses also. Hence bodily sexual behaviour, that is, sexual union of gods and goddesses, is possible in those classes. The sub-classes of the Vaimanika class of gods from the Sanatkumāra to the Acyutakalpa do not contain goddesses. Hence, in these sub-classes the third alternative is possible. That is, though these sub-classes do not