Introduction to Jainism

SR No.: 006919
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Rudi Jansma, Sneh Rani Jain
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy
Publication Year: 2006
Total Pages: 256
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 5 MB

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55 paryāya 56 anekāntavāda, literally the doctrine-of-not-one-conclusiononly 37 According to Theosophy, in the distant future the soul will go through even grander evolutions beyond our present imagination. 58 The nitya-nigodas. 39 Buhner, Stephen Harrod; The Secret Teachings of Plants; The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature, Inner Traditions India, Rochester VM, USA. 60 The English terms used in figure 1 are a translation of: Liberated souls, those who have accomplished all: Siddhaloka. Five heavens of (spiritual) victory: Anuttara. Nine Anudisa heavens: “Subdirectional” heavens. Nine Graiveyaka heavens: “Neck heavens”: (sometimes a figure of a standing man is drawn around the cosmos; these heavens are at the level of his neck). Below these are the 16 empyrean heavens (kalpopapanna): abode of: 1 the deep one: Arana; 2 the unshakable one: Achyuta; 3 the resolved one: Ānata; 4 the kneeling one: Prānata; 5 he with a hundred facets: Satāra; 6 he with a thousand facets: Sahasrara; 7 the radiating one: Sukra; 8 the ultimate radiating one: Mahāśukra; 9 the mysterious one: Lāntara; 10 he of the banyan tree: Kāpishtha; 11 the great lord: Brahmā; 12 the greatest lord: Brahmottara; 13 the eternally young one: Sanatkumāra; 14 the very highest lord: Mahendra; 15 the just one: Saudharma; 16 the lofty lord: Iśāna. Below these 16 follow: Celestial bodies: Jyotishka; lower celestials: Bhavanavasi and Vyantara. 61 A rajju, literally a rope, is of an order of magnitude comparable with a light-year, and is defined as the distance which is bridged by a god when he flies uninterruptedly through space with a velocity of 2,057,152 yojanas (about 20 million kilometers) per second, i.e. some 60 times the velocity of light.