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
bearing the outward signs of a non-Jaina and suffering from mithyātva (i.e. wrong inclination) can be born only upto the twelfth heaven; one bearing the outward signs of a Jaina and suffering from mithyātva can be born upto the graiveyakas. One possessed of samyaktva (i.e. right inclination) can be born anywhere from the first heaven upto the sarvārthasiddha. However, a disciplined personage well-versed in the 14 Pürva-texts is in no case born below the fifth heaven.
5. Anubhāva or Inherent loka-nature :
Anubhāva means inherent loka-nature. It is on account of it that all the vimānas and siddhasīlā (i.e. the rock acting as seat of location for the emancipated souls) etc. remain fixed in ākāśa even in the absence of a support.
At the time of the birth-ceremony of a Lord Arhat there is a quivering of the seat of the gods—this too is a manifestation of loka-anubhāva. Soon after the quivering of their seat some gods, employing their avadhi-cognition, come to realize the greatness of the Tirthankara concerned, approach him and benefit themselves through offering him hynts of praise, obeisance, worship etc. On the other hand, some gods, while staying back at their own place, worship the Tirthankaras through acts like getting up, raising folded hands, lying prostrate, making obeisance, offering gifts. All this too is a manifestation of lokānubhāva. 22. The Rules as to Leśyā Among the Vaimānikas :
In two, three and the remaining heavens there reside gods respectively having yellow, red and white leśyās. 23.
The gods residing in the first two heavens are possessed of yellow leśyās, those residing from the third upto the fifth are possessed of red-leśyā, while those residing from the sixth upto the sarvārthusiddha are possessed of white-leśyā. This rule aplies to a leśyā of the dravya type—which is of the form of a bodily colouring; for so far as leśyās of the bhāva type—which are of the form of a spiritual state—are concerned all the six of them are found in all the gods. 23.