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## Chapter 120, Section 1, The Living Being (Jiva)
**Verse 73**
The four stationary bodies (sthavara-kaya) are: Teja-kayika (fire-bodied), Agni-kayika (fire-bodied), Vayu-kayika (air-bodied), and Vayu-kayika (air-bodied). Those with ordinary bodies, the plant-bodied (vanaspati-kayika) beings, are Nigoda. Nigoda is of two types: Nitya-nigoda and Chatur-gati-nigoda.
There are twelve categories due to the coarse and subtle distinctions of each of the six types: Prithvi-kayika (earth-bodied), Apa-kayika (water-bodied), Teja-kayika (fire-bodied), Vayu-kayika (air-bodied), Nitya-nigoda, and Chatur-gati-nigoda (6 x 2 = 12). Each plant-bodied being is also of two types: Pratiṣṭhita (established) and Apratiṣṭhita (not established). Each plant is only coarse (not subtle), therefore there are only two categories, as there are no subtle distinctions. Combining these with the twelve categories (12 + 2 = 14), there are fourteen categories related to stationary bodies.
There are five categories of Tras (mobile beings): Dvi-indriya (two-sense), Tri-indriya (three-sense), Chatur-indriya (four-sense), Sanjñi-panchendriya (conscious five-sense), and Asanjñi-panchendriya (unconscious five-sense).
All living beings are also coarse. Adding these five categories of Tras to the fourteen categories related to stationary bodies, there are sixteen categories of Jiva-samasa (living being aggregates). Each of these sixteen Jiva-samasa has three categories: Paryāpta (sufficient), two types of Aparyāpta (insufficient) - Nivṛtti-aparyāpta (cessation-insufficient) and Labdhi-aparyāpta (gain-insufficient) (16 x 3 = 48). Therefore, there are forty-eight categories of Jiva-samasa.
The present result of the Jati-jiva (species-being) is called Jati. If there were no Jati karma (species karma), then bedbugs would not be similar to bedbugs, scorpions to scorpions, ants to ants, grains to grains, and rice to rice. However, there is a similarity between them. Or, the karma that creates the one-sense, two-sense, three-sense, four-sense, and five-sense states is called Jati karma.
**Doubt:** Jati is understood as a similar perception, but there is no similarity between grass (trna) and a tree, because there is no similar state available (although both have the rise of Jati karma of one-sense).
**Solution:** No, because there is similarity between them in terms of taking water and food.
The karma that causes the state of movement is called Tras karma. The karma that causes the state of dreaming is called Sana karma. The karma that causes the birth of the senses and other things is called Bas karma.
The karma that causes the state of being stationary is called Sthavara karma. If there were no Sthavara karma, then the stationary beings would be mobile, but this is not the case, because the stationary beings are found to be stationary. The karma that causes the birth of one-sense beings is Sthavara karma. These stationary beings are of five types: earth, water, fire, air, and plants.
**Doubt:** Water, fire, and air-bodied beings move, so are they mobile?
**Solution:** The movement that occurs in water, fire, and air-bodied beings is a result of the Pariṇāma (transformation) of the Pariṇāmik (transforming) state, therefore they are not mobile.
**Footnotes:**
1. Based on the Man. Pra. Tika.
2. Dh. Pu. 6, p. 51.
3. Dh. Pu. 5.
4. Dh. Pu. 6, p. 61.
5. Dh. Pu. 13, p. 363.
6. Sarvārthasiddhi.
7. Dh. Pu. 13, p. 363.
8. Dh. Pu. 13, p. 365.
9. Dh. Pu. 6, p. 61.
10. Sarvārthasiddhi.