Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 5

SR No.: 008006
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 616
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion
File Size: 14 MB

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various drums and the playing of various musical instruments in a distant army-camp of a Cakravartin extending over twelve yojans, and various other sounds, and also to differentiate between them,
7 Ohi atat Avadhi Labdhi afara A natural acquisition by which a Yogi or an ascetic is able to have Visual Knowledge of Matter in various degrecs with reference to Dravya Subject-matter, Kṣétra Space, Kala Time and
Bhāva ta Quality, of the object known.
Birth-born visual knowledg is to be found in celestial and hellish beings. Celestial and hellish beings have Avadhi Jñāna aafu am Visual Knowledge by birth, and they have it till death, just as human beings have sensitive and scriptural knowledge. Celestial and hellish beings have sensitive and scriptural knowledge also.
The other kind of visual or direct material knowledge, arises from the part-destruction, part-subsidence, and part operation of the Karmas which obscure visual or direct material knowledge. This knowledge is acquired by others -e by human and sub-human beings, who are possessed of mind. This is called Guna-pratyayıka fan or acquired by merit, as distinguished from birth-born visual knowledge.
Matter and embodied soul are the subject-matter of visual knowledge.
8. Riu रिउ Rijumali Labdhi ऋजुमतिलब्धि and 9 Viulamai Labdhi faзg at. These two varieties of Labdhis are varieties of Manah-paryāya Jñâna î¬: qufa ga i-e Mental Knowledge Direct knowledge of another's mental activities.
Riju-matiafa is simple direct knowledge of simple mental things e-g. direct knowledge of what a man is thinking of now. The thoughts which can be directly known by mental knowledge, must relate to matter. Simple mental knowledge is of three kinds according as the subject of it is the matter and form of thought about the simple activity of body, mind, and
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