Book Title: Adhyatma Tattvalok
Author(s): Motichand Jhaverchand Mehta
Publisher: Abhaychandra Bhagwandas Gandhi

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________________ useg. Í SPIRITUAL Ligir. only one organ that is touch. The moving souls are classified into four classes ; ( 1 ) having two organs, body and mouth as worms ; ( 2 ) having three organs, body, mouth, and nose as ants etc; (3) having four organs, body, mouth, nose and eyes such as fly etc., ( 4 ) having five organs, as body, mouth, nose, eyes and ears with senses of touch, smell, seeing and hearing as men, animals, gods and denizens of liell also. Beings, having five senses and five organs are divided into two classes as those possessing intelligence as men, gods, certain birds and beasts ( Sanjni ), and as those without intelligence as some birds, beasts, fishes and others etc., ( Asanjni ); they are again subdivided into two divisions as the developed and undeveloped. The developed must possess six things food, body, senses, speech, mind and power of exhalation and inhalation. Every mundane being has ten vitalities. (Dravya Pranas ) as sense of taste, touch, smell, sight, Hedring, mind, speech, bodily strength, respiration and the duration of life. The five organed beings are denizens of hell, animals, men and celestial beings. There are fourteen classes of the denizens of hell, forty eight classes of animals, three hundred and türee classes of men and hundred . and ninety-eight classes of celestial beings. ; The Ajiva Tattva :-The second principle (Ajiva) is classified into five divisons ; (1) Dharmastikāya, (2) Adharmāstikāya,(3) Ākāshāstikāya (4) Pudgalāstikāya and (5) Kāla. It is explained in notes on. Shloka' 14th chapter 1. It is devoid of consciousness, and know. 655

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