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Bhagaval 5:3:62-63
1. Sutra 62
'Life-span' means the mass of material clusters constituting the 'life-span-determining karma', which can not be explained without a reference to the 'lifeform'. The soul binds the life-span-determining karma in accordance with its capacity to take birth in a particular life-form. There are four kinds of life-forms: 1. Infernal, 2. Sub-human, 3. Human, 4. Celestial. The different causes that produce the capacity to take birth in a particular life-form has been mentioned at many places in the scriptures.' In the present surra, the relationship of the life-span has been established with all the four types of life-form.
The life-span of the next birth is bound in the present birth with reference to following six aspects2
(1) Life-span bound as inalterable (except augmentation and reduction) in
its aspect of jäti (species), of birth according to sense-organsDetermination of one particular species out of the five.
(2) Life-span bound as inalterable in its aspect of gati (life-form)
1. (a) Bha. 8.425-428.
(b) Thāṇam, 4.628-631.
Bhāṣya
2. Panna. 6.118-123.
3. Ta. Su. Bha. Vr. 2.51.
Determination of one particular life-form out of the four.
(3) Life-span bound as inalterable in its aspect of sthiti (duration)
Determination of duration of the life-span.
(4) Life-span bound as inalterable in its aspect of avagāhanā (body)— Determination of body out of the two kinds viz. gross body or protean body.
(5) Life-span bound as inalterable in its aspect of pradesa (the number of indivisible units)-Determination of the number of pradesas or the material clusters of atoms or mass of matter.
(6) Life-span bound as in alterable in its aspect of anubhāga (the intensity of fruition) Determination of the intensity of the fruition of life-span (vulnerable and invulnerable)."
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5.63 sevam bhamte! sevam bhamte! tti.
That is so, O Lord! That is so, O Lord!
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