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Section - 4
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se bemi - neva sayam logam abbháikkhejjā, neva attānam abbhaikkhejjá. je logam abbhāikkhai, se attāṇam abbhāikkhai. je attāņam abbhaīkkhai, se logam abbhāikkhai. One should neither deny the world (of fire-bodied beings), nor should one deny oneself. One who denies the world (of fire-bodied beings), denies himself and one who denies himself, denies the world (of fire-bodied beings). Thus do
I say.
Bhagyam Sūtra 66
Here 'world' means the world of fire-bodied beings. Although the fire-bodied beings are not visible on account of their being very subtle, even then the Niryukti has adduced some arguments in order to prove their existence.
Even as the corporeal mass of the glow-worm shines as light in the night, exactly so the lighting power in the fire is inferred as originating from a particular transformation in the fire-bodied beings. Even as the heat of fever is not separate from the fevered, exactly so on account of its heat (temperature), fire is also inferred as a variety of living beings.?
In the Vștti' also, the following argument is given in favour of fire as a sentient entity. Fire grows on the supply of fuel, and diminishes and extinguishes in the absence of it.
Modern thinkers admit that fire cannot kindle without the intake of oxygen.
The fire-bodied beings are entities distinct from other types of sentient beings, on account of their specific body-determining karma, viz., heat producing and lusture-producing.
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