Jinamanjari 1999 04 No 19

SR No.: 524019
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jinamanjari
Publisher: Canada Bramhi Jain Society Publication
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 88
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, Canada_Jinamanjari, & Canada
File Size: 5 MB

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Q. What is the definition of gati ? A. It is the specific mode of the existence of the living beings or souls. Alternatively, it can be said that it is the movement from one state of birth to another state of birth. The Prākrta Pancasangraha (PP) verse 1.58 also defines it this way: “The specific activity or movement of the living being due to the fruition of the physical-making karma is gati. Alternatively, gati is the instrumental cause for moving living beings in four states of infernal etc.”
Q. What is the definition of indriya ? A. It is defined as that agent which is engaged in its own object and which does not engage itself in the objects of other indriyas. In other words, indriya is the master of its own objects. GJ verse 164 also explains it this way: “The indriyas are like Ahamindra (I an lord), who has no classes of lords and servants, but feels as the lord of deities. Indriyas are capable of causing the knowledge about their own objects, independent of other indriyas.”
Q. What is the definition of kāya ? A. It is defined as pudgala in the form of gross body etc. (there are five types of bodies) accumulated due to the action-based propensity of the soul. The PP, verse 1.75 explains it this way: “Know, it is the pudgala in the form of gross body etc. accumulated due to the action-based propensity of the soul. Jain canons speak of six kinds of them, in the form of earth, water, air, fire, plant and mobile, and they form two categories namely, non-mobile and mobile kāyas. The first five kinds belong to the first category and the sixth kind belongs to the latter category.”
Q. What is the definition of yoga? A. It is defined as the generation of potency instrumental in receiving karma due to three-fold propensities of the living being. Alternatively, it is the process of expansion and contraction of the space-points of soul (due to its propensities). It is also said in the PP, verse 1.55: “Jinas have spoken of it as the effort in terms of potency (or energy) instrumental in receiving karma by living being associated with mental, vocal and physical actions on its own. Alternatively, it is defined as motions or vibrations of the space points of the soul."
Q. What is the definition of veda (libido)?
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