Tattvartha Sutra

SR No.: 006796
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sukhlal Sanghavi, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 596
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 10 MB

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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
turnings requires three samayas, while that involving three turnings requires four.
In this connection it must also be noted that in a soul proceeding by straight motion to assume a new birth the new contingent of the karma types ayus, gati and ānupūrvī is manifested as soon as the earlier body is given up; but in a soul proceeding by a curved motion the new contingent of the karma types ayus, gati and ānupūrvī is duly manifested at the place of the first turning; for the āyuş etc. pertaining to the earlier birth remain manifested only upto the place of the first turning. 30.
The Duration of Absence of Nourishment :
In the case of a soul that is in the process of being emancipated there is no question of nourishment being undertaken during the course of transmigratory motion; for such a soul is devoid of all body-whether subtle or gross. But in the case of worldly soul the question of nourishment does arise; for during the course of transmigratory motion, such a soul is invariably accompanied by a subtle body. By nourishment is to be understood the process of receiving physical particles appropriate for the formation of a gross body. Nourishment thus understood is found and also not found in the case of worldly souls while in the course of transmigratory motion. Those souls which are proceeding by straight motion or by motion involving one turning and requiring two samayas are not devoid of nourishment. For in the case of the souls proceeding by straight motion the same samaya which is the samaya of leaving the earlier body is also the samaya of assuming the new one—thus there being transversed no further samaya in the process. Hence in their case the samaya of straight motion is either the samaya of undertaking nourishment through the body of the earlier birth or that of undertaking nourishment through the body of the new one. The same applies to the motion involving one turning; for out of its two samayas the first is that of undertaking nourishment through the body of the earlier birth, while the second is that of reaching the place of new birth-during which latter samaya nourishhment is