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
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Bhagaval 6:6:120-127
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(projection) of his soul-units due to impending death (one antarmuhurtta before his death). Having expanded his soul-units, such soul is born as two-sensed beings in one of the abodes of two-sensed beings among the innumerable lakh abodes of two-sensed beings. There does he appropriate nourishment, transform it and start building his body?
The description is like that of the infernals, in the same way...... up to the gods of the highest heaven.
6.127 jive nam bhamte! maraṇamtiyasamugghãeṇam samohae, samohaṇitā je bhavie pamcasu aṇuttaresu mahatimahālaesu mahāvimāṇesu aṇṇayaramsi aṇuttaravimāṇamsi aṇuttarovavāiyadevattāe uvavajjittae, se nam bhamte! tatthagae ceva āhārejja vā? pariņāmejja vā? sarīram vā bamdhejjā? tam ceva jāva āhārejja vā, pariņāmejja vā, sarīram vā baṇdhejjā..
A soul, O Lord! undertakes the märaṇāntika samudghäta, i.e., expansion (projection) of his soul-units due to impending death (one antarmuhurtta before his death). Having expanded his soul-units, such soul is born as a god of an Anuttara Vimāna (highest heaven) of very vast dimensions, in one of the vimānas of the highest heaven among the five Anuttara Vimanas. Does such soul, O Lord, after reaching there appropriate nourishment, transform it and start building his body?
This is to be described as before up to it appropriates nourishment, transforms it and starts building his body.
Bhāṣya
1. Sūtras 120-127
The detailed description of the seven infernal lands and many abodes has been already made the Bhagavati, 1.212-215. In the present dialogue, they have again been mentioned in connection with the maraṇāntika samudghāta, i.e., his death."
The soul, expanding his soul-units near death-time, returns to the present body, after reaching the place of future birth. It is an important secret of parapsychology, which has been widely discussed by the parapsychologists of the twentieth century on scientific basis. One of them, in his book "Death after Death" has given the account of Dr. George Ritchie in this context, which is worth contemplating.
In the present dialogue, Gautama Svāmī has asked Lord Mahāvīra three questions about the soul undertaking the māraṇāntika samudghāta: does such soul reaching its place of birth appropriate nourishment, transform that nourishment and start building its body? In answer, the Lord said. "The maraṇāntika samudghāta is undertaken twice in life. Some souls by the process of expansion of the soul-units take birth at the new place. They do appropriate nourishment at the first samaya (indivisible time-unit) of new birth, transform it and begin building their new body. Some souls having reached that place return back without appropriating nourishment,