Chapter on Passion

SR No.: 001602
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 358
Language: English, Prakrit
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Canon
File Size: 13 MB

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13. Transition Positions in Investigation Doors (Mārgaṇās)
There are five transition-in-group positions consisting of groups of 27, 26, 25. 23 and 21 species in infernal, celestial and five-sensed subhuman beings.
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There are all the group transition positions in the human beings.
The beings of remaining category i.e. 1-sensed, 2-sensed, 3-sensed, 4sensed (i.e. 3-deficient-sensed beings) and non-mind-endowed beings have only three group transition positions consisting of the group of 27, 26, 25 species.
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Transition Positions in Disquisition Doors 1. (81)
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There are four group transition positions consisting of 27, 26, 25 and 23 species in the first spiritual stage of wrong faith.
There are two group transition positions consisting of the groups of 25 and 21 species in the third spiritual stage of rightcum-wrong faith.
There are twenty-three group transition positions in the spiritual stages associated with righteousness.
There are twenty-two group transition positions in the spiritual stages associated with abstinence or restraint (sixth and seventh spiritual stages).
There are five group transition positions consisting of the groups of 27, 26, 23, 22 and 21 species in the partially restrained stage. (Fifth stage)
There are six group transition positions consisting of the group of 27, 26, 25, 23, 22 and 21 species in the spiritual stage of nonrestrained right faith. (Fourth stage)
(This verse indirectly refers to group transition positions in the investigation doors of righteousness or restraint).