Reality English Translation of Sarvarthasiddhi

SR No.: 001197
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S A Jain
Publisher: Jwalamalini Trust Chennai
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 334
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, Tattvartha Sutra, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 20 MB

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THE NATURE OF INFERNAL BEINGS
नारका नित्याशुभतरलेश्यापरिणामदेहवेदनाविक्रियाः ॥३॥ Nārakānityāśubhataraleśyāpariņāmadehavedanāvikri yāḥ (3)
3. The thought-colouration, environment, body, suffering and shape of body (or deeds) are incessantly more and more inauspicious in succession among the infernal beings.
Leśyā (complexion of thought) etc. have been explained already. These are of greater impurity in infernal beings than in animals. And among the classes of infernal beings themselves, the impurity (foulness) is greater and greater as we go down lower and lower. 'Nitya' denotes perpetual, incessant. Those whose thought-colouration etc. are incessantly impure are the infernal beings with impure colouration, environment, body, pain and activity. In the first and in the second regions the prevailing complexion of thought is grey, in the upper part of the third grey and in the lower part indigo, in the fourth indigo, in the upper part of the fifth indigo and in the lower black, in the sixth black and in the seventh dark black. It is said that physical complexion is the saine till the end of one's life. But thought-colouration changes within one muhūrta. Owing to the adverse nature of the regions, the touch, taste, smell, colour and sound are very disagreeable and are the cause of pain and anguish. The bodies of infernal beings are also more and more deformed, loathsome and hideous in shape and disgusting to look at as we go lower and lower down, because of the rise of inauspicious physique-making karmas. Their height in the first region is seven bows, three cubits and six inches. From region to region it is doubled. Owing to the internal rise of inauspicious feeling karmas, they suffer from extreme heat and cold inflicted by the external environment. In the first four regions, the abodes cause agony by heat alone. In the upper part of the fifth, two hundred thousand abodes cause intense heat. In the lower part, one hundred thousand abodes cause intense cold. In the sixth and in the seventh, sufferings are caused by intense cold alone. The infernal beings intend to have handsome forms,
1 Leśyā is also rendered as thought-paint.