Agam 05 Ang 05 Bhagvati Vyakhya Prajnapti Sutra Part 02 Bhagvai Terapanth

SR No.: 006599
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tulsi Acharya, Mahapragna Acharya, Mahendramuni, Nathmal Tatia
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2009
Total Pages: 740
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, & agam_bhagwati
File Size: 20 MB

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Bhagavai 3:4:183-185
appropriated in a particular soul is to be described (with reference to all the twenty-four groups of soul) up to
3.184 jive nam bhamte! je bhavie joisiesu uvavajjittae, se nam bhamte! kimlessesu uvavajjai?
goyamā! jallessäim davväim pariyäittä kālam karei, tallessesu uvavajjai, tam jahä-teulessesu.
Among, the luminous gods, of what lesyä, O Lord! is the soul, destined to be born as the luminous god, born?
O Gautama! it is born among the luminous gods of the same material colouration as it appropriates at the time of its death. For instance, among the gods of fiery colouration.
3.185 jive nam bhamte! je bhavie vemāņiesu uvavajjittae, se nam bhamte! kimlessesu uvavajjai?
goyama! jallessäim davväim pariyäittä kälam karei, tallessesu uvavajjai, tam jaha-teulessesu vā, pamhalessesu vä, sukkalessesu vā.
Among the Empyrean gods, of what lesya, O Lord! is the soul, destined to be born as the Empyrean god, born?
O Gautama! it is born among the Empyrean gods of the same material colouration as it appropriates at the time of its death. For instance, among the Empyreans of fiery leśyä, or yellow (filament) lesyä, or white lesyä, according as appropriating fiery, yellow or white lesyä respectively.
Bhāṣya
1. Sutras 183-185
In the present dialogue, the doctrines of lesya (psychic colour) and re-birth have been propounded. The guiding principle of colouration is that the colouration that obtains at the last moment of life is inherited in the next birth. In other words, the soul is born in a form of life where that lesya is available. The Uttarajjhayaṇāņi describes this principle elaborately-the process of transformation of lefyd continues for antarmuhurtta. No soul is born with the leśya that obtains at the first or the last time-unit of the process of transformation. It is born with the colouration that obtains in between two antarmuhurtta periods, one of the previous birth and one of the next one.'
In the principle of inheriting colouration, three aspects of colouration are involved, viz., material lesyd, psychical lesya and the lesya available in the place of rebirth. The life-span of the next birth is bound in the present birth. At the time of death, the matter of that lefyd is appropriated which will be available to the soul at the place of re-birth. For instance, there is fiery colouration in the luminous god. The soul that has bound the life-span of a luminous god will appropriate the material of fiery colouration immediately before his death, and transform itself in