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 5:8:208-224
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soul is an eternal entity--it was not produced at any time, nor will it cease to existence at any time. Hence, no new soul can emerge nor any existing soul can be destroyed. The number of souls in the universe is constant, there being no increase and decrease in their number.
The 24 groups of living beings such as the infernals etc. are the modes or the special states of the sentient substances, so increase and decrease in their number go on taking place. The constancy of their number is relative, depending on the viraha-kāla, i.e., the interval of time and equation between new arrivals and departures. According to the Pannavanā, the viraha-käla is 12 muhürttas in all the seven infernal lands. During this interval, there is neither new arrival nor departure of infernals.?
The period of the next 12 muhürttas, there is equation between the number of infernals born and infernals dead. Thus, the period of constancy of number of infernals is 24 muhūrttas; there is neither increase nor decrease in number of infernals during this period.
The period of constancy of number of infernal vary from hell to hell as shown below.
Name of Hell Interval of no birth | Period of equation Period of constancy
1. Ratnaprabhā
24 muhurttas
24 muhūrttas
48 muhürttas
2. sarkarāprabhā
7 day-nights
7 day-nights
14 day-nights
3. Bālukāprabha
month
V, month
1 month
4. Pankaprabha
1 month
1 month
2 months
5. Dhūmaprabha
2 months
2 months
4 months
6. Tamahprabhā
4 months
4 months
8 months
7. Tamastamāhprabhā
6 months
6 months
12 months
8. Samuccaya
12 muhurttas
12 muhūrttas
24 muhüritus
The one-sensed beings continue to take birth every samaya, so the viraha-kāla is zero. When one-sensed beings are born in greater number and die in smaller number, then there is increment in their total number. When they die in greater number and are born in smaller number, there is decrease in total number. When the deaths and births are equal in number, there is constancy of number.
In the case of the two-sensed, three-sensed, four-sensed, and coagulated five-sensed beings, the viraha-kāla is one antarmuhūrtta and the period of equation of births and deaths is also one antarmuhurtta; thus, the period of constant number of these beings is two antarmuhurtta.