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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(160) Nandanavana
The finer bodies of luminous and karmanic type are generally not termed as bodies by biologists, but they are the forms of metabolic products like caloric energy produced therein to run the body and cells, secretions and genes etc. which are produced during intake metabolism to augur different functions properly. If they are not there, there will be difficulty. Some Jain authors have equated luminous body with caloric or electromagnetic energy in the body, but karmanic body is said to be finer than cells etc. However, if karma is taken as equivalent to these fine parts in the body, it may sound more scientific to explain many phenomena properly. The scientists do not seem to agree with protean and communication body, but they also seem unable to explain many observed phenomena based on them.
S.No.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Body
5.
Gross
Protean (Transformable)
Table 6: Details about Five Bodies.
Space
points
Infinite
Karmanic
Form
Gross
Communication Finer
Luminous
Finer
Fine As
As. As
N.∞=
Finest
(1/00.L)
N.(00),
1/002L
Ownership
All living
beings
(Men,
animals)
Hellish,
Celestials
Sixth stagers
All living beings
All living
beings
where N = Non-liberatable; L-Liberated beings; As = innumberable.
Birth-base
Uterine/Non
uterine
Special bed
birth
Uterine
Uterine/Nonuterine
7. Life Cycle of Living Beings: (a) Birth.
Every living being has a life cycle of birth, growth and death. The birth is defined as the first appearance through conception (invisible in general) or delivery of a new living embodiment in the world. The conceiving factors are not given in T.S. though they are given in Sthänänga (Page 576-578, 628-29). The T.S. 2.31 mentions three types of birth through which new living species of different types of born: (1) Non-uterine or spontaneous (2) Uterine (incubatory, placental, non-placental) and (3) Special bed. We do not have any
Uterine/Non
uterine