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Bhagavai 5:3:59-61
-:213 :(1) The soul binds the life-span of the next birth, when the innumerableth part of an āvalikā in the present life-span is remnant.
(2) The soul binds the life-span of the next life, when one muhurtta less one time-unit in the present life-span is remnant.
Now, let us make a review of this discussion. The current life-span is experienced in the present birth; the experience of the life-span of the next birth begins in the time-unit immediately following the end of the preceding birth. In accordance with this rule of the experience of the life-span, the doctrine that the soul during the internal transit is possessed of the life-span of the next birth, is implied. Jinabhadragani Ksamāśramana has discussed in detail the internal transit from the empirical and metempirical points of view. Siddhasenagaņī has briefly given its substance as follows: In the case of straight transit to the place of birth, the life-span of the preceding birth continues till the arrival at the next birth-place. In the case of transit with turn, there is the life-span of the preceding birth in the first time-unit, and in the second time-unit there begins the life-span of the next birth. Srimajjayāchārya, following this doctrine, writes: "The liberated soul eliminates the four aghāti karmas in the first time-unit of its liberated state. Any intelligent person can compare the first section of the fourth chapter of the Thānam for the confirmation of this truth." In the following gāthā of Uttarādhyayanas also, this has been stated: “After having abandoned the body (here), the soul goes to siddhasilā (the abode of liberated souls) and becomes liberated there."
1. Bha. 1.342,343. 2. Ibid., 1.340,341. 3. (a) Panna. 6. L14-116.
(b) Ta. Sữ. Bhã. VỊ. 1.51, p.219. 4. Jai. Si. Ko. part 1, p.271. 5. Vi. Bhā. gā. 3160-3165 --
jamiham bomdiccão tadeva siddhattanam ca jam ceham! tassāhanam ti to puvvabhāvanayao idam siddhi 11316011 jena u na bomdikäle siddho cāyasamae ya jam gamanam ! paccuppannanayamayam sijjhai gamtūna teneha 11316111 atthīsiyajjhärovalakkhiyam manuyalogaparimänam! logagganabhobhāgo siddhikkhettam jinakkhāyam ||3162|| dehattibhāgo susiram tappūranao tibhāgahīņo tti! so joganirohe cciya jāo siddho vi tadavattho 113163|| samhārasambhavāo paesamettammi kim na samthāi? samatthābhävão sakammayão sahāvāo 11316411 siddho vi deharahio sapayattābhāvao na samharai
apayattassa kiha gaī, nanu bhāniyā'samgayaihim 11316511 6. Ta. Sū. 2.29-rjugatau pūrvakamevā''yurbhavati yāvadupapātadeśam prāpnoti, kuțilagatau yāvad
vakram tāvat pūrvakam, tatparato bhavisyajjanmavişayamāyurudeti. 7. Jhīņi Caracā, dhāla 17, gāthā 13.
prathama samaya nām siddha cyāra karmām nām amśą khapävai rail
cauthe thanai prathama ygdese, byddhivamtą nyāya milāvai re 11 8. Uttara. 36.56—
‘iham bomdim caittānam tattha gamtüņa sijjhai'.
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