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
souls are invariably possessed of a karmic body. Hence that wavering of a soul-units produced by a body which is called kārmaņa yoga or karmic activity is also invariably present then. And when activity is there the reception of karmic physical particles is inevitable; for it is but activity that is the cause of the attraction of the groupings of karmic particles. Thus just as at the time of rainfall a thrown forth heated arrow proceeds receiving or absorbing within its body the particles of rain-water, so also during transmigratory motion, a soul rendered unsteady by karmic activity proceeds towards a new place receiving the groupings of karmic particles and assimilating them within its body. 31.
The Types of Janma or Birth and Yoni or Seat of Birth :
Agglutination, coming out of a womb, and sudden manifestation-these three are the types of birth. 32.
That possessed of living entities, cold and concealed these three, their corresponding opposites—viz. that devoid of living entities, hot and revealed, plus three mixtures of the members of the first and second triads-viz. that partly possessed of and partly devoid of living entities, partly cold, partly hot, and partly concealed and partly revealed-thus nine in all are the types of seat of birth. 33.
The jarāyuja or beings born wrapped with the jarāyu coverage, the andaja or those born out of an egg and the potaja or those born in a bare state—these three types are born coming out of a womb. 34.
The hellish beings and heavenly beings are born by way of sudden manifestation. 35..
The remaining types of beings are born by way of agglutination. 36.
The Types of Birth :
When their earlier worldly career is over the worldly beings assume a new one; for that they have to take birth. But not in the case of all the beings is birth of one and the same