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physical) body leven according to the Gita like discarding old dress and wearing a new one death is nothing but discarding the old body for a new). Human beings and animals have physical bodies but besides these they certainly have two subtle bodies as well. They are Tuijas (the radiant or the energy component of the constitution of a being) and the Karman (the karmic component of the constitution of a being). These two bodies are Ussential parts of a worldly being. The digestion of food, the body heat etc. are activities of the Taijus body. The rebirths, defining of new body, happiness and sorrow in the new life etc. are controlled by the Karman body. At the time of death it is only the gross Audarik body that is left here. the Taijas and Karman bodies accompany the soul. Thus death mear abandoning the Andurik or gross physical body. Another Amurik body is acquired due to the subtle Kuman body and this cycle of rebirth continues.
As long as the Taijas and Kurman bodies are not left, there is no end to birth and death. Therefore, in fact death is not the last act according to the ultimate viewpoint. The leaving of the subtle bodies is in fact the last act or intakriva. That is why Acharya Abhavadev
has said the act of ending all kuumas is the last act. Which means that liberation, as a consequence of ending of all karmas, is the last act. Thus the word nukriva has been used here to convey its true meaning. In other words the word and the meaning here have no ambiguity or contradiction. Four Types of Antakriya
There is a question in Prujnapona SurBhunte, does a being do antukrivi? Gautam, some being does that and some do not
The beings that are not capable of doing cintakriven-or to get liberated in that particular incarnation-are the hell beings, four classes of gods including Asur Kumar, beings in the range of one sensed (earih bodied etc.) to four sensed (including deformed oncs), live sensed animals and non-sentient human beings. 01 the sentient beings 100. only those born in Kurma Bhumi (land of endeavour) and Mahavideh area do muhrivu.
This means that of the 24 Danduks, only human beings belonging to a very limited area can shed all karmas and get liberated in that particular incarnation. All the remaining beings will first incarnate as human beings and get liberated only when they get all favourable parameters. This is the most important advantage of being born as a human being
That is why it is said in the Uttaradhyaan Sutra
Wandering through incarnations as 8.4 million different types of beings, a being incarnates as a human being only when infinite meritorious karmas become effective and the soul attains a very high degree of purity.
Antakriddasha Mahima
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