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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CHAPTER FOUR
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is as follows : released from one of the four anuttaravimānas one is born as a human being, at the end of this life one is again born as a god in an anuttaravimāna, released from there one is again born as a human being and attains mokṣa in this very life. However, the gods residing in the vimāna Sarvārthasiddha are born as a human being but once; that is to say, released from that vimāna they are born as a human being and attain moksa in this very life. In the case of gods other than those residing in an anuttaravimāna there is no hard and fast rule in this connection; for among them some attain mokṣa after being born as a human being but once, some after being thus born twice, some thrice, some four times, some more than four times. 27.
The Nature of Animals :
All the beings which are not men and are not born by way of sudden manifestation belong to the species animal. 28.
'What beings are to be designated animal ??—this question has been answered in the present aphorism. Leaving aside those born by way of sudden manifestation—that is, the heavenly beings and hellish beings—as also the human beings all the worldly souls are to be designated animal. The heavenly beings, hellish beings and human beings are necessarily five-sensed; but the animals might be from one-sensed upto five-sensed ones. The animals are unlike the heavenly beings, hellish beings and human beings who are necessarily confined to certain particular loka-regions, for they might be found in any and every loka-region. 28.
An Adhikāra-sūtra—that is, an Aphorism with Its Jurisdiction Running Over the Several Next :
Now begins an account of life-duration. 29.
The maximum and minimum life-duration in the case of the human beings and animals has been stated, the same in the case of the heavenly beings and hellish beings remains to be stated. This latter enunciation, beginning from the next aphorism, continues upto the end of the chapter. 29.