Nandanvana

SR No.: 006597
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 592
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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(Pleasure, pain, heat, coolness, sensitivity or consciousness) in his two-fold definition:
(a) Volitional or current psychological
(b) Capacitative and functional consciousness (Upayoga, Cetanā). The commentator, Akalanka, has mentioned a third point in the definition.
(c) An entity with vitality (sense-organs, respiration, life-span, strength -all physical attributes).
He has described all these definitions in second and other chapters of T.S. However, in the days of spiritualization, the cognitive differentia became primary, non-alienable or ideal one, others getting secondary positions. But the ideal property cannot be without its substratum and the commentators have, therefore, mentioned dual nature of difference and non-difference between an attribute and attributed, materiality and non-materiality of the living being etc. When one faces logical difficulty on one side, it could be solved from the other side.
On this trend, there could be three types of the definitions of the living beings:
(a) Purely physical: vitality (b) Purely non-physical: Consciousness
(c) Mixed definition: Physical-cum-non-physical (vitality and consciousness). Table 1 : Comparative Study for Biology in T.S. and Current Biology No. Point
T.S. Biology
Biological Texts Disquisition doors 40 Origin of life Eternal, Mutation Evolutionary, Cellular Concepts of living
30 Birth Uterine/ Non-uterine Uterine/Non-uterine in one
sensed, Uterine in 2-5 sensed. Death
Natural/Continual: 5 Clinical death types, 17 causes. Brain death.
28
10
Senses, physical
4 senses in primary living; 5 senses in the rest.
Vary with perceptibility of organs Vary with physical senses
Senses, psychical
All psychical senses in cellular theory.