Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals

SR No.: 001656
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 210
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Biology
File Size: 13 MB

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Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals
subsidential type whereby the human being becomes right-faithed and subsided-passioned (ii) subsidential - realisational type whereby the man becomes subsided-passioned (iii) subsidential-destructional type whereby the man subsides passions and becomes destructional right-faithed (iv) subsidential -destruction-cum-subsidential type whereby the living one subsides the passions and becomes clairvoyant and (v) subsidential-inherential type whereby the living one destroys delusion and becomes liberatable. (c) There are five varieties of combined volitions due to bi-volitional combinations with respect to destruction-cum-subsidential volition such as - (i) destruction-cum- subsidential -destruction-cum subsidential type whereby the human being becomes restrained and clairvoyant (ii) destruction-cumsubsidential-realisational type whereby the man becomes restrained (iii) destruction-cum subsidential-subsidential type whereby the living being becomes restrained and subsides passions (iv) destruction-cum-subsidentialdestruction-cum-subsidential-inherential type whereby the man becomes vigilantly restrained. (e) There are five varieties of combined volitions due to two-volitional combinations with respect to the inherential volitions, such as -(i) inherentialinherential type whereby the living one becomes liberatable (ii) inherentialrealisational type whereby the living one becomes passioned with anger (iii) inherential- subsidential type whereby the living one becomes liberatable and subsided-passioned (iv) inherential-destructional type whereby the living one destroys passions and becomes liberatable and (v) inherential-destruction-cum subsidential type whereby the living one becomes restrained and liberatable.
These are the twenty-five two-volitional combinations. When these are combined with the above said ten three-volitional combinations and one five-volitional one, they make up thirty-six (25+1+10 =36).
The 41 varieties of combined volitiona can be described now. When the five varieties due to the four-volitional combinations (as above) are added to these 36, we have forty one varieties of combined volition. Similarly, more varieties of combined volition may be perceived which could be consistent with the canons. 23 Q. The volitions like subsidential etc. cannot be designated as the nature of the soul because these are mattergic (karmic) and they depend on the realisation and dissociation of karmic bondage. A. This is not correct. The worldly soul is always subjugated by the special mattergic power which transforms in many ways for him. This, therefore, becomes indentical with the soul as it becomes its characteristic. It is said by Kundkunda in his Pravacana Sāra (1.8) that the agent through which the reality undergoes change is said to be identical with it. It is why the qualitatively transformed soul is also called the quality itself. This type of transformation is