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Bhagavai 3:4:183-185
- 123:corresponding psychic leśyā, and will take birth in the same leśyā as a luminous god after death.
The following table gives the details of the leśyā available in 24 groups of souls Serial No. of Soul
Leśyā Dandaka Several infernal beings
First three colour 2-13
Ten Bhavanpati gods and Ten RI
First four colour earth-bodied being, water-bodied
being, long-bodied being. 14,15,17,19 Fire-bodied being, air-bodied being, First three colour
two sensed, three sensed and four sensed being Subhuman beings without minds, Six colour subhuman beings with minds. Humans without mind, humans with First three colour mind belonging to karma-bhumi, Yaugalika humans. Forest gods.
First four colour Luminous gods.
Only fiery colour First, second heaven, first minial Only fiery colour gods. Third fourth, fifth heaven and second Only padma minial gods. Third minial gods, from sixth heaven Only white colour up to highest Empyrean gods.
The clause “jallesāim davvāim pariyāittā' refers to the material of leśyā appropriated by the soul'. Material leśyā has three implications--
(1) The material clusters needed for the psychic colouration which starts on
the appropriation of the material clusters. (2) The colour of the body of the soul. (3) The aura or the nimbus.
The first aspect is relevant to the present dialogue, which implies that at the time immediately before death, there takes place the process of transformation of the material and psychical lesyä conforming to the next birth. The Vrtti also points to such interpretation.?
1. Uttara. 34.58-60
lesāhim savvähim padhame samayammi pariņayāhim tu! na vi kassavi uvavão, pare bhave atthi jīvassa II lesähim savvāhim carame samayammi parinayāhim tu ! na vi kassavi uvavão, pare bhave atthi jīvassa Il
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