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## First Understanding: Description of Earth Body
**Or Audaric** - meaning gross, is a body made of gross pudgals. A body that is subject to decay and decomposition, that can be pierced and broken, that has skin, blood, flesh, bones, etc., is an Audaric body.
**Vaikriya Body** - is a body that can be transformed into various or specific forms. A body that can become many from one, one from many, small from large, large from small, aerial from terrestrial and terrestrial from aerial, visible from invisible and invisible from visible, is a Vaikriya body.
This body is of two types: **Aupapatik** and **Labdhipratyayik**.
**Aupapatik Vaikriya Body** - is the body that Devas and Narakas receive at birth.
**Labdhijanaya Vaikriya Body** - is the body that some specific humans acquire the power to create various forms due to the influence of Labdhi.
**Badar Vayu Kayik Jivas** - are also considered to have artificial Labdhijanaya Vaikriya bodies.
This body does not have blood, flesh, bones, etc. It is also not subject to decay and decomposition.
Compared to Audaric, its provinces are countless times more numerous but subtle.
**Aharak Body** - is the body that the fourteen previous Tirthankaras create through specific Labdhi for the purpose of seeing the Riddhi-Mahima of the Tirthankaras and other similar purposes. It is said that for the purpose of animal compassion, seeing Riddhi, knowing subtle substances, and removing doubts, the fourteen previous Tirthankaras create a subtle body the size of a hand through their special Labdhi and send it to the Tirthankara Bhagwan. This subtle body is made of very auspicious, pure, white pudgals like a crystal stone. After creating this body, the fourteen previous Tirthankaras wander in the Mahavideha Adi Kshetra and send it to the Tirthankara Bhagwan. If the Tirthankara Bhagwan has gone elsewhere from there, then a statue the size of a head emerges from that hand-sized body, which reaches wherever the Tirthankara Bhagwan is. From there, it receives answers to questions, etc., and enters the hand-sized body, and that hand-sized body enters the body of the fourteen previous Tirthankaras. This fulfills the purpose of the fourteen previous Tirthankaras. This entire process takes place in one Antarmuhurt. This type of body creation is the Aharak body. This Aharak body may not exist at all in the world. The time of its absence is negligible, one time, and excellent, six months.
**Tejas Body** - is the body that is luminous and is the cause of the digestion of the consumed food, etc., and the cause of radiance. Just as a farmer supplies water to different beds in the field, this body converts the consumed food into juice, etc., and delivers it to the various organs. Through specific tapasya, some men acquire the Labdhi to emit Tejo Leshya.