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## First Understanding: Description of the Earth Body [45]
**1. Vaikriya Samudghat:** This occurs when the earth body expels the gross pudgalas of the Vaikriya karma, which were bound earlier. This is the Vaikriya Samudghat.
**2. Tejas Samudghat:** This occurs when the earth body expels the Tejas body karma. It should be understood in the same way as the Vaikriya Samudghat. This involves a significant depletion of the Tejas body karma.
**3. Aharaka Samudghat:** This occurs during the formation of the Aharaka body. It involves the depletion of many pudgalas of the Aharaka body karma. The process should be understood in the same way as the Vaikriya body.
**4. Kevali Samudghat:** This occurs before the final moment of liberation when the Kevali's Ayukarma dalikas are reduced, and the Vedaniya, Nama, and Gotra karma dalikas remain in specific quantities. This involves the depletion of many Vedaniya, Nama, and Gotra karma dalikas. It takes eight stages:
* **Stage 1:** Formation of the Danda
* **Stage 2:** Formation of the Kapata
* **Stage 3:** Churning
* **Stage 4:** Expansion throughout the entire universe
* **Stage 5:** Absorption of the intermediate realms
* **Stage 6:** Absorption of the churning
* **Stage 7:** Absorption of the Kapata
* **Stage 8:** Absorption of the Danda, after which the Kevali returns to their own body.
This process significantly depletes the Vedaniya, Nama, and Gotra karma dalikas, making them equal to the Ayukarma dalikas. The time for the six Samudghats (Vedanadi) is Antarmuhurt, and the time for the Kevali Samudghat is Path time only.
**5. Subtle Earth Body Beings:** Among the subtle earth body beings, only three of the seven Samudghats occur: Vedana, Kashaya, and Maranantik. The remaining four Samudghats do not occur because they lack Vaikriya, Tejas, Aharaka, and Kevali Labdhi.
**6. Sanjidwar:** A being with consciousness is called a Sanji. Here, consciousness refers to the ability to recollect the past, present, and future. Beings with specific memory and other mental faculties are Sanji. Beings lacking these faculties are Asanji.
**7. Types of Consciousness:** Consciousness is said to be of three types:
* **Dirghkaliki Sanjna:** This is the consciousness that allows for the recollection of the past, contemplation of the future, and the present activity of attraction and repulsion. This consciousness is found in Devas, Narakas, Garbha, Tiryanch, and Manushyas.
* **Hetuvadopaदेशिकी Sanjna:** This is the consciousness that allows for the present-moment thinking that is useful for attracting what is beneficial and repelling what is harmful for the sustenance of the body. This consciousness is found in beings with two or more indriyas, but not in beings with only one indriya.
* **Dristivadopaदेशिकी Sanjna:** Here, Dristi refers to Samyagdarshan. Beings with Samyaktva, such as those with Kshayopaशमिक, are Sanji. Those with Mithyatva are Asanji.