Aapta Mimansa

Author(s): Saratchandra Ghoshal
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith

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they are possessed of the four kinds of passions, viz, anger, pride, deceit and greed.
Akalanka, therefore, says, "the internal and external excellence of bodies etc., though not found in shows of magicians, cannot be accepted as proving the omniscient, for these are seen in celestial beings whose passions have not disappeared. So, you are not praised as our Lord even for this."2
According to Jaina doctrine, "condition of existence (gati) is the state (of a soul) brought about by the operation of the body-condition-making (gati-nāma-karma) or it is the cause of the soul's passing in either of the four conditions of existence. The four kinds of the conditions of existence are : Hellish (Nāraka), Sub-human (Tiryancha), Human (Manusya), Celestial (Deva)."3
“Devas (celestials) are so called because they always amuse themselves with their eight heavenly acquisitions and have shining heavenly constitutions.94
1. 372 uçat: unatrys: a mafa, 7 arçant day to challe: PITCI" Asta
sahasri. From one point of view karmas are subdivided into two classes, ghāti (destructive) and aghāti (non-destructive) : "hui yu gera 3ffa o sift HOUT3TT 1” (Gommatasāra, Karma-kānda, verse 7). By ghāti karmas, perfect knowledge, perfect conation, infinite power, purified right belief, purified qualities (as conduct, charity etc.), sensitive (knowledge) and other subsidential thought-activities are destroyed, vide: “केवलणाणं दंसणमणंतविरियं च खयियसम्मं च। खयियगुणे मदियादी खओवसमिए य घादी दु ॥"
Gommatasāra, Karma-kānda, verse 10. 2. “बहिरन्तःशरीरादिमहोदयोऽपि पूरणादिष्वसम्भवी व्यभिचारी स्वर्गिषु भावादक्षीणकषायेषु।
ततोऽपि न भवान् परमात्मेति स्तूयते।” Asta-sati. 3. "TSUG4541 53113114TR TS at & णारयतिरिक्खमाणुसदेवगइत्ति य हवे चदुधा ॥"
Gommațasāra, Jiva-kānda, verse 146. "Frontefruit41619aifa 1 Tattvārthādhigama-sūtra, VIII, Verse 10. 4. Scaifat et foreen Tolle Pacelinafsi il
erhafcicachrel et à afoupil dal ll" Ibid, verse 151.