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JAIN JOURNAL: VOL-XLIX, NO. 1-IV JULY 2014-JUNE 2015
Celestial beings, similar to human beings, are responsible for their actions; their karmic load can either increase or decrease depending on thier actions. But there are restrictions on the lower and upper limits on their karmic load. Their karmic load cannot become larger than Kgs; hence, they cannot transmigrate to an amanaska-subhuman birth-species. The celestial beings are not capable to achieve a spiritual stage (gunasthāna) higher than fourth stage32; hence, their karmic load cannot become less then K4. The life form of celestial beings is more development than the life form of human beings in the first spiritual stage (mithyādssti), because a mithyādssti human being can transmigrate in the next life to the celestial birth-species by reducing his or her karmic load. The maximum karmic load, K , at the agebonding moment of a living being to take birth in the next life as a celestial being should be less than or equal to K' i.e. K <K', where K' is the minimum value of the karmic load of a mithyādsști living
being.
As shown in Figure 5 and Table 5, a celestial beings transmigrates to the five-sensed-samanaska-subhuman birth-species if K<<Ks, and the human birth-species if
Human Celestial
Samanaska Subhuman
K* Kc KM Kss
KARMIC LOAD Figure 5. Transmigration from the celestial birth-species. Table 5. Possible birth species in the next life for the celestial birth-species in the present life
Next birth-species Samanaska subhuman if KSKSKS Human if KASK<K
