Religious Quest of India

SR No.: 011031
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J N Farquhar, Griswold
Publisher: J N Farquhar Griswold
Total Pages: 365
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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96 THE NINE CATEGORIES OF (Sparsendriya); the sense of taste (Rasendriya); the sense of smell (Ghranendriya); the sense of sight (Cakşurindriya); the sense of hearing (Sravanendriya).
There are also three other powers known as Baļa prāņa: bodily power (Kāyabaļa), speech (Vačanabaļa) and mind (Manabala). The ninth Prāņa, Anapāna prāņa (or Svāsoċċhvāsa) gives the powers of respiration; and thc tenth prāņa, Ayu prāņa, is the possession of the allotted span of life during which the jīva has to sustain a particular
bodily form. The
In order to understand Jiva more fully, the Jaina divide isions it according to the class of beings in which its past karma of Jiva into :- may force it for a time to take up its abode. The first
division which they make is into Siddha and Samsāri. classes
A man's karma may force him to dwell in some being still struggling with all the troubles of this present world, sullied by contact with Ajiva (insentient matter), and having further rebirths to undergo before he can reach mokşa; or he may have attained deliverance and become a Siddha. The Samsārī live in the world, but the Siddha, or perfected oncs, who are freed from karma, live in a place called Işatprägbhāra, which consists of pure white gold and has the form of an open umbrella. The beings who dwell there have no visible form, but consist of Life throughout and possess paramount happiness which admits
of no comparison. ii. Three We have divided Life into two classes : Siddha and classes. Saṁsārī, perfected and unperfected; we may now, the
Jaina say, divide Saṁsāri life into three divisions : male,
female and neuter.? iii. Four Or again, we may regard it in four ways, according to classes. the place where it was born. Jiva born in hell are called
I Cp. S.B.E., xlv, p. 212.
? With the Jaina, however, these words do not seem to bear quite the usual English connotation. Living things are sometimes considered neuter, and non-living things male or female.