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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Chattha Uddeso
Section-6
Text Āuyapakaraṇa-veyaņā-padam 7.101 rāyagihe jāva evam vayāsii-jīve nam bhamte! je bhavie neraiesu uvavajjittae,
se nam bhamte! kim ihagae neraiyāuya pakarei? uvavajjamāne neraiyāuyam pakarei? uvavanne neraiyāuyam pakarei? goyamā! ihagae neraiyāuyam pakarei, no uvavajjamāṇe neraiyāuyam pakarei, no uvavanne neraiyāuyam pakarei. evam asurakumāre vi, evam jāva vemāniesu. The Topic of the Binding and Experiencing the Life-span (-determining (Karma)
In the city of Rājagrha the assembly of Mahāvīra ...... up to Gautama addressed the Lord thus-0 Lord! does the soul, which is destined to be born as an infernal being bind the infernal life-span (-determining karma) here in this life, or when it is being born or after being born? Gautama! it binds the infernal life-span (-determining karma), when it is here in this life, not when he is being born; nor after being born. In the same way, about the reincarnation of a soul as an Asurakumāra ...... up to an Empyrean gods.
Bhāsya 1. Sutra 101
An important question in the 'science of the life hereafter' is about the determination of the life-span of the next life. In the present dialogue, Gautama has put his query about the same topic, to which Lord Mahāvīra has given his reply. According to him, the life-span of next life is destined in the present life, and the soul starts his transit to next life with this life-span. The soul cannot undertake transit untill and unless the next life-span is determined. Hence, the binding of life-span-determining kurma of the next life can not take place while the soul is upapadyamāna—in the process of being born (in the next life or upapanna-after birth (in the next life).
The end of the life-span of this life and death connote the same meaning. “The soul that undertakes transit to next life does so when he is already equipped with life-span for the next life.' This rule is the subject matter of this Sūtra. For detailed information, see Bhāsya on 5.59-61.
The line of distinction between the stages of being born' and 'after being born' is not available in ancient literature. It can be however be inferred that the 'aparyāpta avasthā' (the stage of incomplete bio-potential) is the stage of being