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, સ્યાદ્વાદ માર્ચ ૨૦૧૫
પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવન ♦ અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદ્વાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક પૃષ્ઠ ૧૩૭ વાદ, સ્યાદ્વાદ અને normally live in the heavens (Kalpas) of the upper every living being is born several times on the cycle world. These celestioal beings can be either born in of transmigration. In it, Asura and Naga celestials proparadies' (Kalpopapanna) or `beyond' the Kalpasi duce rain or thunder. The nine `Gods of the Limits of (Kalpatita). Jaina texts describe fourteen heavens. the World' (Lokantikas), the guardians of the four carKalpopannas live in the first twelve heavens, where dinal directions and the four intermediate directions, they have a social structure of princes, ministers, and the zenith, reside in the fifth heaven. courtesans, bodyguards, police, troops, citizens, servants and country people. Kalpatitas are themselves like 'Heavenly Kings' and do not have need of any social structure. Their needs are fulfilled simply by their wishes. The first twelve Kalpas are symbolized by animals; deer, buffalo, bear, lion, goat, leopard, horse, elephant, cobra, rhinoceros, bull and antelope.
There are sixty-two layers of `Celestial Chariots' in the heaven and beyond, arranged to prevent collisions, Jain texts descirbe thirteen layers in Saudharma and Isāna, twelve in Sanatkumāra and Mahendra, six in Brahmaloka, five in Lokantika, four in Sahasrara, and four in Anata and Pranata and four in the Aran and Acuta regions of the heaven. There are nine layers in Graiveyakas and single layer in Anuttara.
The nine Graiveyakas and five 'unsurpassables" (Annuttaras) reside in the thirteenth and fourteenth heavens. Annuttaras are very close to that final perfection which they will atain after two human births. Under the crescent of Siddha Silā, the `all-accomplished' celestials (sarvathasiddha) reside and they will rebron just once as humans, since human existence is the only one through which one may attain liberation. They must pass through one more human life.
અનેકાન્તવાદ, સ્યાદ્ધવાદ અને હ્રયવાદ વિશેષક અનેકાન્તવાદ, સ્યાદ્ધવાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક અનેકાન્તવાદ, સ્યાદ્ધવાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક - અનેકાન્તવાદ, સ્યાદ્ધવાદ અને નયવાદ વિશેષાંક અનેકાન્તવાદ, સ્યાદવાદ
Occasionally, heavenly beings pass from one part of the world to another. Sometimes they pay visits to those who were their friends in earlier existences, either to guide them or to help them in the consecration ceremony of a recently born human designated to be Tirthankara. Sometimes they are pleased with the sincere devotion to them and may help their devotees with material wealth. They possess miraculous chariots in which they travel, hence their description in Jain text is found as Celestial-carred'.
The serenity of the inhabitants of the paradises increases gradullay as one goes upward through the levels of the upper world Their lifespan, power rediance, morality and sphere of their sensory and super sensory knowledge, differentiate celestial beings from each other, which increase proportionally as one moves up the ladder of heavens.
Female celestials are born only in the two lowest heavans. Their movements are restricted as far as the eighth paradise. The sexual enjoyment of the two lowest celetial beings is similar to that of humans. The higher the level of the celesial beings, the more subtle is their sexual life. It is sufficient for them to touch, to see or to simply hear Goddesses, to satisfy their sexual urge. The celestial of the tenth and the elevanth paradises can satisfy their urges by imaginnig the object of their desires. Finally, beyond the twelfth paradise, they are rid of their passions. They are pure, satisfied and serene.
The first four and the last four paradise are usually grouped in pairs. The celestial world also contains matter and darkness, since water and vegetable particles issuing form one of the large seas of the middle world spread right up to the fifth heaven, Brahmaloka. In this level of the fifth heaven eight dark masses (Krsnarājis), or conglomerations are found, In these masses are the lower forms fo life; અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદ્વાદ અને તયવાદ વિશેષાંક + અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદ્વાદ અને તયવાદ વિશેષાંક
Jainas believe that rebirth is dependent on the merit and demerit acquired in previous lives, and on the maturing of attched Karma to the soul. Humans and five-sensed anmimals have the possibility of attaining heavenly life in the upper world. The Heavenly beings and the Hellish beings are not reborn as celestials.
Ascetics, whether Jains or not, who venerate spiritual teachers and their doctrine, wear spiritual teachers and their doctrine, wear the insignia of their religion, repeat and teach the scriptures to lay people, and who observe Right conduct (but do not have Right Faith) can be reborn up to the ninth heaven. The Middle world:
માદ્ધવાદ અને નયવાદવિશેષાંક અનેકાન્તવાદ, સ્યાદ્ધવાદ
The Middle world is the region from where the soul can attain liberation. Jaina Cosmology pictures the middle world as a flat, elliptical, disk, one Rajju wide and 100,000 yojanas high. It is made up of concentric ring of 'Continents' and 'Oceans', as diagrammatically shown in figure 3.2. In the centre of the middle world is the Jambu Continent with a diameter of a hundred thousand yojanas. A Salty ocean (Lavana-Samudra) of twice the area of a Jambu Continent surrounds it. Lavana Samudra contains four vast receptacles (Pātāla), at the four cardinal points, which function to produce tides along with. અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદ્વાદ અને તયવાદ વિશેષાંક ૬ અનેકાંતવાદ, સ્યાદ્વાદ અને