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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water referred to in the illustration. As a third instance I will refer to the six Leśyās or complexions of the souls, ranging from deepest black tu shuning white colours which we common mortals cannot perceive with our cycs. This doctrino was shared also by the Ajivikas, on whom Dr. I[ocrnle* has thrown so much light. These colours of the soul are procluced on it by the karman which acts as a colouring substance. Here also the material naturo of karman is quite obvious.
To return from this digression, the karma matter that enters the soul is transformed into eight different kinds of karman about which I shall have to say a word presently. This change of the one substance into eight varieties of karman is likened to the transformation of food consumed at one meal into the several Huids of the body. The Karma matter thus transformed and assimilated builds up a subtle body which invests the souls and Accompanies it on all its transmigrations, till it enters Nirvana and goes up to the top of the Universe. This subtle body or kārmaņa sarira is obviously the Jaina counterpart of the sūkşna šarira or linga sarira of the Sānkhyas | In order to understand the functions of this subtle body, or kārmaņa sarira, we must take a summary view of the eight kinds of Karman of which it is composed. The first and second (jfānāvaraạiya and darśanā. varaṇya) obstruct knowledge and faith; which are innate faculties of the soul or jtva; the third (mohaniya) causes delusion cspcci. ally the affections and passions; the fourth (vedaniya) results in pleasure and pain; the fifth (āyuşka) assigns the length of life to the person in his present birth; the sixth (nāma) furnishes him with all that belongs to him as an individual; tbc scventh (gotra) makes him a member of the class or genus which he is to belong to; the eighth (antarāya) produces hindrances to the realization of his virtues and powers.
* Encyclopoedia of Religions and Ethics. Vol. I pp. 259 sq.
The Jainas reoognize four different subtlc bodies; soc Tattrarth ii 37 sq.