Reals on the Jaina Metaphysics

SR No.: 001619
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Harisatya Bhattacharya
Publisher: Shatnidas Khetsy Charitable Trust Mumbai
Publication Year: 1966
Total Pages: 430
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, Religion, & Epistemology
File Size: 8 MB

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from the beginningless time. The other three Bodies are some times joined to the soul and sometimes they fall off. Besides, the Kārmaņa and the Taijasa, the human beings and the lower animals have the Audārika Body. The celestial and the infernal beings have the Vaikriyika Body in addition to the Kārmaņa and the Taijasa bodies. The Body which some anchorites assume for some particular purposes in addition to the Kārmaņa, the Taijasa and the Audārika Bodies is called the 'Ahāraka'.
The Jīva is possessed of the life, called the Indriya when the Indriya-Paryāpti is complete. Senses are five in number and hence the corresponding sense-life also is of five modes.
On the completion of the Vaçana-Paryāpti, the soul gets the life which is called Vaçana-Bala, enabling it to speak.
When the soul has the Prāņāpāna-Paryāpti, it attains the Prāṇāpāna.----life, i.e. it becomes capable of breathing.
On the attainment of the Manaḥ-Paryāpti, the Jiva is possessed of the life called the Manas or Mind.
MĀRGANA
Every Samsāri soul has the above lives. The expression of a temporal soul in and through those avenues, has been called the Mārgaņā. The Mārgaņā's are fourteen in number, Gati, Indriya, Kāya, Veda, Yoga, Kaşāya Jñāna, Sanyama, Darśanopayoga, Leśyā, Bhavyatva, Samyak-Darśana, Samiñitva and Ahārakatva. Gati is a Karma which accounts for a soul's varied status as a celestial being etc. Indriya or sense is the organ of Indra, the soul. A Saṁsāri Jiva has a Kāya or body e.g. the earth-body etc. Yoga is a Torpor in a Pradeśa or part of the soul. Veda, consists in the sexual feelings of a male, female or an eunuch. Anger, Conceit, Deceit and Greed are the four Kaşāya's which are inimical to Right conduct. Jñāna is the knowledge of Truths. Samyama is the spirit of restraint which arises when the conduct-deludingkarma (Çāritra-Moha) is stayed, annihilated or partially stayed and annihilated. Darśana consists in the apprehension of the generality of an object. The psychical tendency due to Yoga, tinged with Kaşāya is the Bhāva-Lesyā or subjective