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152. Question: What is the nature of Paryaya-Jnana? Who are its masters? Answer: In one Antarmukhurta of a Sukshma-Nigodaya Labdhya-Paryapta Jiva, a maximum of 6012 Bhavas are possible. The Jiva, while traversing through them, acquires the last inadequate body through three turns. At the time of the first turn, the most inferior knowledge, which is in the form of Akshara, obtained through the knowledge of the mind generated by the sense of touch, is called Paryaya-Jnana. Its only characteristic is that the fruit of the Karma that covers it does not manifest in this Paryaya-Jnana. Because if the fruit of Paryaya-Avarana Karma becomes Paryaya-Jnana, then due to the lack of knowledge-use, the Jiva would also cease to exist. However, at least the Paryaya-rupa knowledge is definitely found in the Jiva. This makes this knowledge Avarana-free because the effect of the Shruta-Jnana-Avarana called Paryaya, which obstructs it, falls on the Paryaya-Samasa-Jnana, not on the Paryaya-Jnana. 153. Question: How many types of Akshara-Atmaka Shruta-Jnana are there? Answer: There are two types of Akshara-Atmaka Shruta-Jnana: (1) Anga-Pravist and (2) Anga-Bahya. Anga-Pravist has twelve types: (1) Acharaanga,
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