Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 1

SR No.: 008001
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 650
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion
File Size: 15 MB

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determined by their particular tint of merit or demerit, i-o by their particular leśyā. These leśyās are designated as 1. stup Krišpa, Black, 2. ftes Nila, Blue, Indigo, 3. Frata Kāpota, Grey, .. Trot Tejo, Red, 5 7 Padma, Pink, and 6. y śukla, White, corresponding with the thought-paints indicated by the partioular colour.
They are either meritorious or sinful. Sinful leśyās give rise to black, indigo, and grey colours. Meritorious tasyās give rise to red, pink, and white colours.
In illustration of thought-tints produced by these lesgās, an acoount is given in Jaina books, of six persons who, having lost their way in a big forest, happen to come under a big fra Jambũ Vriksa, Tree of Rose-apples. They were hungry and all of them desired to eat some Rose-apples. One of them saill "Let us cut down the roots of the tree, and we shall be able to eat plenty of them.” Another said, “Let us leave the root in tact, but out off the trunk.” The third said "Let us spare the root and the trunk but chop off all the big branches of the tree.” The fourth said, “Let us spare the root, the trunk, and all the big branches but cut off only a few small twigs bearing ripe fruits." The fifth said, “Let us spare the root, the trunk, big and small branches, but let us pluck out only ripe fruits from the nearest twigs." The sixth man said "Let us spare the root, the trunk, big and small branches, and even the ripe fruits on the tree. Let us pick up the ripe fruits that have fallen here on the ground from the tree, and let us hereby satisfy our hunger."
EROTTSPOT Krişna Leśyā, Black Thought-tint. A man affected with this leśya, tries entirely to destroy everything that had excited his anger, malice etc. Denizens of hell and human beings undertaking concerns involving the destruction or wholesale slaughter of human beings or lower animals, and some cruel demigods, have this idśyā in a marked degree. The individual affected with this leśyā goes to a tree and uproots the whole wellgrown tree in order to eat only a few fruits growing on it. The aura of wicked and sinful persons is black.