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Bhagavai 6:10:183-186
Jainism, however, as a believer in non-absolutism, does not accept that it is only suffering that prevails in worldly life. In the present dialogue, the feeling of suffering has been considered from the standpoint of relativity (vibhajyavāda). The infernals experience pain almost exclusively, but occasionally, they experience pleasure also, for example, on the occasion of the birth of the jina. The gods, on the other hand, mostly experience pleasure, but some times pain too. The sub-humans and humans experience both pleasure and pain miscellaneously-sometimes pleasure, sometimes pain.
1. Pä. Yo. Da. 2.15. 2. Dhammapada, 146.
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Neraiyādīņam āhāra-padam 6.186 neraiyā nam bhamte! je poggale attamāyāe āhāremti tam kim āyasarīra
khettogādhe poggale attamāyāe āhāremti? anamtarakhettogādhe poggale attamāyāe āhāremti? parumparakhettogādhe poggale attamāyāe āhāremti? goyamā! āyasarīrakhettogādhe poggale attamāyāe āhāremti, no anamtarakhettogādhe poggale attamāyāe āhūremti, no paramparakhettogādhe poggale attamāyāe ähäremti.
jahā neraiyā tahā jāva vemāniyānam damdao. The Topic of Nourishment of Infernals etc.
Do' the infernals, O Lord! get their nourishment by appropriating the material clusters which pervade in the same space as occupied by their body, or pervade the space immediately near to their body, or pervade the space away from their body? Gautama! (the infernals) get their nourishment by appropriating the material clusters which pervade the same space as occupied by their body, and not pervading the space immediately near to their body nor pervading the space away from their body. All the (24) soul-groups ..... up to the Empyrean gods are to be described just like the infernals.
Bhāsya 1. Sūtras 186
Every worldly soul appropriates the material clusters for all its activities. The query here relates to the space where from the soul appropriates the material clusters. There are three alternative spatial areas related to the soul in this connection:
1. The space occupied by the body of the soul itself. 2. The space in immediate proximity to the space occupied by the body of
the soul.
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