$JES 904 Compendium of Jainism (Jain Academic Bowl Manual 3rd Edition)

Author(s): JAINA Education Committee
Publisher: JAINA Education Committee

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PHILOSOPHY
B04 - Six Universal Substances I: Jiva or Living Being
4. Trasa Jiva (Mobile)
All Mobile living beings have more than one sense organ. They are further classified depending upon the number of sense organs they possess. Beindriya (Two Sensed Living Beings): Two sensed beings have the sense of touch and taste. Examples - shells, worms, insects, termites, and microbes in stale food. Treindriya (Three Sensed Living Beings): Three sensed beings have the sense of touch, taste, and smell. Examples - white ants, moths, insects in wheat, grains, and centipedes. Chaurindriya (Four Sensed Living Beings): Four sensed beings have the sense of touch, taste, smell, and sight. Examples - Scorpions, crickets, spiders, beetles, locusts, and flies. Panchendriya (Five Sensed Living Beings): Five sensed beings have all the five senses of touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing. Examples - human beings, COWS, lions, fish, birds, etc. Five sensed living beings are further classified into following four categories:
Näraki (Infernal) Living beings in the hell Tiryancha (Animals) Elephants, lions, birds, fish, etc. Dev (Celestial) Heavenly living beings Manushya
Human being The five sensed beings, which possess a capacity of rational thinking are called Sanjni Panchendriya
and those without it are called Asanjni Panchendriya. 04 Paryäpti (Power) and Präna (Vitality) All living beings have special attributes related to body such as Paryäpti (power) and Präna (vitality) Paryäpti (Bio-potential Power)
Paryäpti means an ability through which living beings can convert matter Pudgals like food into different kinds of energy. There are six kinds of Paryäptis:
Food • Body
Senses Respiration Speech
Mind When any living being dies, the soul along with its Tejas (fiery body) and Kärman (karmic) bodies transmigrates into a new body and the first thing it does is to consume food. Then the Jiva gradually acquires a physical body and the power of senses. The activities of consuming food, developing a body, and forming and strengthening sense organs go on continuously. The body is formed in duration called the Antar-muhurta within 48 minutes. Next, the Jiva acquires the power of respiration and eventually the powers of speech and mind. The Ekendriya, one sensed jivas, have four Paryäptis, 1) Food 2) Body 3) Sense, and 4) Respiration The Beindriya, the Treindriya, the Chaurindriya and the Asanjni Panchendriya jivas possess 5) Speech Paryapti in addition to the above four.
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