Moksha Marg Prakashak

SR No.: 006760
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Todarmal Pandit
Publisher: Kundkund Kahan Digambar Jain Trust
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 556
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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MOKSHA MARG PRAKASHAK
Thus, from the point of view of the rise of karmas, owing to the instrumentality of wrong belief etc., only miseries and miseries alone are found in the world. (B) Miseries from embodied modifications point of view
Now the same miseries are further described from the embodied modifications point of view :
The Miseries of One-sensed beings In this universe most of the time is spent in one-sensed embodied modifications only. Therefore, assuredly from the beginningless time Jivas are found living in the Nitya Nigoda state and getting out from there is like jumping out of a gram (grain) from the baking cauldron. Thus, after coming out from there the Jiva attains other embodied modification. There in Trasa-Paryaya (Mobile beings having two or more senses) the Jiva lives for a very short duration. Most of the time is spent in one-sensed embodied form.
There, in Itar-Nigoda, he lives for a very long period and for quite sometime he lives in earth, water, fire, air and gross vegetables-bodies. After getting out from Nitya Nigoda the maximum period of living in Trasa (Mobile beings) bodies is two thousand and a little more Sagars only and maximum period of living in onesensed beings is innumerable Pudgal Paravartans only, and the period of one Pudgal Paravartan itself is such that in infinitesimal part of it infinite Sagars are found. So, mainly the period of this mundane being is passed in one-sensed bodies only.
There, in one-sensed beings the manifestation of power of knowledge and perception is found in extremely poor measure. Those (onesensed) beings know and see only a little bit of cold and heat, etc. through Mati-Jnan (sensory knowledge) produced by the instrumentality of touch sense and through Shruta Jnan (the knowledge derived through Mati Jnan) and through non-ocular perception pertaining to touch sense. Owing to the intense rise of knowledgeobscuring and perception obscuring karmas the manifestation of knowledge and perception is not found more than this but the desire of (enjoying the) objects is found due to which they are extremely miserable. And owing to the rise of Darshan Moha (faith-deluding
karma) perverse belief is found, due to which they believe the