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where some sort of active goodness is present to modify the effect of evit and vicious ignorance.
The form of the future rebirth is usually fixed about the time that a third of the life.force (the force of longevity) romains to be gone through in any particular form. If it is not fixed thon, it will be fixed when a third of that third remains to be gone through, and again, if pot determinod even thon, when a third of the remindor is left to live, and in any easo at tho moment of death. But wbat is fixed in this manner is the general type of the gati (one of the four main types of embodied existence, namely, human, celostial, sub-human and hellish). The actualform and other attendant cirumstances would seem to depend on the nature of the thongbts and feelings actually prevai. Jing in the mind at the moment of denth, so that wb these are characterized by tranquillity, self-knowledge, and veneration for the Tirthankaras, Liberated Ones, Saints and Scripturo, tho conditions of rebirth will be of the most auspicious and the least undesirable type; and vice versa. It would thus seem that the two psychical or psychological factors which play the greatest part in the determination of the nature of the future re-incarnation are character and feeling, the former determining tbe gati, and the latter, the actual grade of beings in the parti. cular gati. The südhu, therefore, does not suffer death to come to him unprepared, but determines to control his disposition and inner feeling both. The former is altered by the acquisition of Right Faith and illumined with the light of Right Knowledge, and the latter is controlled by the rules constituting Right Conduct. Hence, where Right Faith is acquired too late, that is to say after the type of the gati has been fixed for the future rebirtb, it is power. less to replace it in that very life, though, short of this, it will do much to modify, for the better, the nature of the oonditions of existence witbin it. This is because the stamp of disposition once firmly impressed on the karmanası ( an invisible inner body which is the repository of chara. oter ) is indelible for that life, though capable of modification by subsequent deods to a very great extent. Thus, if
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| SR No. | 032175 |
| Book Title | Mrutyu Mahotsav |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Sadasukh Das, Virendra Prasad Jain |
| Publisher | Akhil Vishva Jain Mission |
| Publication Year | 1958 |
| Total Pages | 48 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 8 MB |