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Inspired by this feeling of detachment he makes a nidan--"If I am to get any fruit of my austerities, practices, celibacy or observing of codes of conduct, may I also reincarnate in a family of high status and pure ancestry and become a shramanopusak, acquire the discerning knowledge about being and non-being, recognize sinful and meritorious attitudes, and give pure food and other prescribed things as alms to ascetics."
Such a person, if he dies before doing a critical review or atonement for this nidan, he reincarnates as a god (as a result of his austerities or following the ascetic conduct). Completing the life-span as a god he reincarnates as a human being in a family of high status. He listens to and develops faith in the tenets propagated by the omniscient. He observes the shravak-vows, and observes fasts, does critical review (pratvakhyan), and follows other codes. However, he is unable to accept the complete ascetic code of conduct to become an inducted Shraman.
He then reincarnates as a god in some divine abode. This inability to become a Shraman is the fruit of this nidan.
Ninth Nidan
An ascetic, who properly observes and follows austerities and codes, when averse to mundane pleasures he considers mundane pleasures as worthless.
He then makes a nidan---"If I am to get any fruit of my austerities, practices. celibacy or w erving of codes of conduct, may I reincarnate in a low, deprived, destitute and beggarly family where there is lack of mutual fondness, so that I may easily renounce the family to become an ascetic."
Such a person, if he dies before doing a critical review or atonement for this nidan, he reincarnates as a god (as a result of his austerities or following the ascetic conduct). Completing the life-span as a god he reincarnates as a human being in a family of the said type only. He listens to and develops faith in the tenets propagated by the omniscient. He observes the shravak-vows, gets initiated as an ascetic and indulges in austerities also. However he cannot attain liberation, he reincarnates as a god.
This inability to attain liberation is the fruit of this nidan.
The basic cause of the said nine types of nidan is attachment. The first six nidans are inspired by carnal desires or mundane attachments and the last three by religious attachment.
But attachment is not the only cause of nidan. Aversion or animosity also inspires making a nidun. Nidan out of Aversion
Nidan out of aversion is directed at some tormentor or terrorist.
When some powerful individual snatches some dear thing from a weak, torments him or beats him cruelty, the weak makes a nidan to kill or destroy the strong and during the next incarnation does so.
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Antakriddasha Mahima
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