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248 Ques-o Worshipful Lord I Is bhāva-siddhitva ( attainment of Liberation after a number of worldly existences ) svabhavika (innate) or pariņāmika ( subject to development ?
Ans O Jayanti ! It is innate; not subject to development.
Ques :--Will all bhava-siddhya Jivas ( living beings fit for Liberation after a number of worldy existences) attain Liberation ?
Ans --Yes, All living beings fit for Liberation will attain Salvation.
Ques. O worshipful Lord! When all the living beings fit for Liveration will attain Liberation will the Loka (the world) become emptyed not?
Ans No, It will not happen.
Ques O Worhipful Lord I Why do you say that when all the living beings fit. for Liberation will attain Liberation, even, then, the Loka will not become empty ?
Ans-No Jayanti. It is not possible. Just as, by removing one particle out of a heap of all the akasa-pradetas (of loka, as well as, of a-loka) at every samaya of time, all the particles of a heap of äkāša-pradesas, cannot be removed as they are anantānanta, in the same way, all the living beings fit for Libera
स्सइ । मुत्तत्तं भंते ! साहु जागरियत्तं साह अत्यंगहयाणं जीवाणं जागरियत्त साहु ? से केणटेणं मंते ! एवं वुच्चइ अत्थेगइयाण जाव साहू ? जयंती ! जे इमे जीवा अहाम्मिया अहम्माणुया अहम्मिट्ठा अहम्मक्खाई अहम्मपळोइ अहम्मपलजमाणा अहम्मसमुदायारा अहम्मेणं चेव वित्ति कप्पेमाणा विहरंति एएसि णं जीवाणं सुत्तत्तं साहू, एएणं जीवा मुत्ता समाणा नो वइण पाणभूयजीवसत्ताणं दुक्खणयाए सोयणयाए जाव परियावणियाए वटुंति एएणं जीवा मुत्ता समाणा अप्पाणं वा परं वा तदुभयं वा नो बहुर्हि अहम्मियाहिं संजोयणाहिं संजोएत्तारो भवंति, एएसिं जावाणं सुत्तत्तं साह, जयंती ! जे इमे जीवा धम्मिया धम्मायुणा जाव धम्मेणं वित्ति कप्पेमाणा विहरंति
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