Tulsi Prajna 2002 04

SR No.: 524611
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2002
Total Pages: 122
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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In the earth-bodied beings there is only a tacit and undeveloped mind owing lo which there finds manifestation in them only indistinct instincts of food and the like.2The knowledge of the one-sensed beings is the least manifest like that in a person who is mad, fainted or poisoned. ?" (xii) Food Gautama: "Lord, al what intervals do the carth-bodied beings hanker after food?'' Lord: “Gautama, they hanker after food every moment without break. They consume food by the entire surface of their body, transforming all old properties viz. colour, taste etc., into new ones." (xii) Modes Gautama: "Lord, how many modes are there in earth-bodied beings?” Lord: "Gautama, they undergo infinite number of modes which mutually vary between a set of six extremes with regard to infinite, innumerable and numerable parts lesser, and infinite, innumerable and numerable times lesser; another set of six extremes with regard to infinito, innumerable and numerable parts greater, and infinite, innumerable and numerable times greater in respect of colour and the like and also knowledge and
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(xiv) Invisibility to sensuous knowledge Even as in a plant there is fine viscosity due to which its body is nourished by means of food that it intakes, although the process is invisible on account of its finencss, just so there is very subtle viscosity in the earth-bodied organism which is not perceptible to our sense-organs." (xv) Passions The passions of anger, pride, etc., are also there in the earth-bodied beings, but they are too subtle to be perceived by persons endowed with the power of sensory perception alone. The humans curse, blame and frown on the rise of anger. But the carth-bodied beings are not capable of exhibiting such signs when thcy are angry.** (xvi) Psychic Colouring (lesya) There are four psychic colourings in the earth-bodied beings: blatk, blue, gray and fiery." This shows that even though they have no mind, they are subject to peculiar transformations which find vent as aura. JA 51 37067 -- ftate, 2002 C
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