Prabuddha Jivan 2015 Year 63 Ank 01 to 03

SR No.: 526000
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dhanvant Shah
Publisher: Mumbai Jain Yuvak Sangh
Publication Year: 2015
Total Pages: 288
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Prabuddha Jivan, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદ્વ પૃષ્ઠ ૧૩૬, પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવન - અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદ્વાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક માર્ચ ૨૦૧૫
મવાદ, સ્વાદુવાદ અને
are reborn in any one of the above destinies, which that can progress towards liberation. Celestial beings depends upon the new boy-producing karma ac- can be jealous of other celectial beings that are bet-5 quired in the hellish life.
ter than they are. Celestial beings have varied forms Š The seven regions of the lower world become of clairvoyant knowledge and tremendous power over i gloomier and more unplesant as one travels down. the material universe.
These regions are filled with pain and suffering, ex- The Middle World and Celestial Beings : & tremes of cold and heat and interminable hunger Perpatetics (Vyantaras and Vāna Vyantaras),
and thirst. The lower world begins 900 pramāna second group of celestial beings, live in the middle 5 & yojana below the base of Mount Meru (the central world, 00 yojanas above the first hell and 100 yojanas Š $ point of the continent on wihch humans live). below the earth. They lodge in hollows in rocks or in
Hellis beings are not born from the womb, but forests in the three worlds, and come of their own they come into beings spontaneously in a narrow accord to help or bless humans. the Peripatetic are w necked vesel. They are removed from the birth ves- divided into eight groups and each has sub-groups. w
sel by evil celestial beings (paramādhāmis). Their there are recognizable by their different emblems and
bodies are broken when removed from the vessel, two Indras, with their retinues of princes, ministers, 5 but they reconstitute themselves, just as drops of courtesans, bodyguards, police, troops, citizens, ser- 5 mercury flow back together. Their bodies are made vants and country people, command each group.
of inauspicious particles of matter and are capable The minimum lifespan of heavenly beings is ten & of adapting to any shape or size, and they posses a thousand years. Human can control them through
perverted form of clairvoyant knowledge. Most of meditative recital of mantras and, if controlled, they 3 & them spend their time in conflict with one another. serve those people. The names of different groups $ Hellish Beings are not rebron as Hellish beings, be- of the Peripatetics described in the Jaina scriptures
cause the realization of their karma and resultant are Pisāca, Bhuta, Yaka, Raksasa, Kinnara, suffering burns away much of their bad karma. Some Kimpurusa, Mahoraga, Gandharva and others. are reborn as lower form such as plants, birds or Astral Celestials: animals, and others who suffer the results of their A stral are the third group of celestial beings found
karma with equanimity, are reborn as humans in the middle world, very high above the earth. These Š The Lower World and Celestial Beings:
celestial beings: Suns Moons, Planets, Constellations 5 * The uppermost hill of the lower world is the resi- and Stars, are known as astrals' (jyotiskas) as they fi
dence of the lowest category of celestials called the shine brightly and light the world. It is said that these & Residentials' (Bhavanvāsis), brilliant, charming, gra- astral beings have celestial cars and chariots to trans
cious and playful, each with gems, weapons and port them in and outside the palaces in which they & distinctive insignia. There are ten classes of Resi- live. We perceive these celestial vehicals and palŚdential' celestials; each further divided into two aces by their luminescence and radiation of heat. groups, northern and southern, both rules over by
a T hese celestials reside in the area 790-900 celestial sovereign (Indra). The Asuras belong to this pramana yojanas above Mount Meru. Their movecategory.
ment causes days, night, eclipses, solstices and other Celestial beings are not born from the womb but astronomical formulations with which the human world come into existence spontaneously on a bed of Flow- is familiar. Their movement is said to affect the desers. Their bodies are made from auspicious particles tiny of individulas in the human world. Jaina geograof matter, and they can change their size and shape phy describes a large continent' known as of their bodies at will. Their real form is that of young jambudvipa or Jambu Continent. Jaina texts claim that people, both male and female and they retain their this continent has two Suns and two Moons. Many ē
youthfulness. They have along life span, but six oceans and other continents, which are larger, sur5 months before the end of their lives, the garland of round the Jambu Continent. These have an even § flowers that they wear withers, signifying the end of greater numbers of Suns and Moons.
their celestial life. They feel miseable because of The Upper World and Celestial Beings : the thoughts of their future rebirth in utero, as an The fourth and the highest groups of celestial beanimal or human. They resemble the rich who enjoyings inhabit the upper world, which is seven rajjus wealth, but cannot control themselves. Those few high. They live in the palaces of paradise. They are who live an ethical life are born as human beings called the Celestial-Ca red ones' (Vaimanika). They અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદુર્વાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક + અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદ્વીદ અને વયવાદ વિશેષાંક ક અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદુર્વાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક F અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદુર્વાદ અને
અનેકન્તિવાદ, સ્યાદ્ધવાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક 4 અનેકાન્તવાદ, સ્યાદ્ધવાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક 4 અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદ્ધવાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક ક અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદ્ધવાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક ૬ અનેકાન્તવાદ, અને
હુ અનેકન્તિવાદ, સ્યાદ્વવાદ અને તેયવાદ વિશેષાંક અકીત્તવાદ, સ્યાદ્વવાદ