Agam 15 Upang 04 Pragnapana Sutra Part 02

Author(s): Shyamacharya, Punyavijay, Dalsukh Malvania, Amrutlal Bhojak
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay

Page 445

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The celestial regions where the sexual desire is fulfilled through mere touch, sight, etc, do not contain goddesses. Hence whenever gods of these regions desire sexual enjoyment goddesses from other regions present themselves before them, having assumed beautiful body. And the gods of these regions get full sexual satisfaction through mere touch, sight, etc. of the body of the goddesses. Thus the sexual behaviour of these gods is confined to mere touch, etc. Even in the case of these gods we are told that the transmission of their semen into goddesses takes place. The commentator accounts for the transmission of semen into goddesses even in the absence of actual sexual union by postulating some supernatural influence (divya-prabhāva). Moreover, he tells us that the semen entered into the body of a goddess causes the increase in its beauty and charm.
In the celestial regions beginning with Ārana the gods satisfy their sexual needs by mere desire. When these gods entertain the sexual desire, the goddesses from other regions do not appear before them but they remain in their own regions and assume erotic beauty. And the gods experience the sexual satisfaction through mere desire, even though they are far away from the goddesses. And the goddesses, having remained confined to their own regions (which are far away from the regions of gods whose sexual desire they satisfy), become more and more charming (on account of the transmission of semen into their bodies, the transmission taking place through super-natural forces).
At the end of the chapter there occurs an account of the relative numerical strength of the living beings having this or that type of sexual behaviour. The following is the ascending order : aparicārakas, maṇaḥparicārakas, sabdaparicārakas, rūpaparicārakas, sparsaparicārakas and kāyaparicārakas. But the order is reverse when we have in view the degrees of pleasure. The degree of pleasure derived from actual sexual intercourse is the lowest whereas the degree of that pleasure which does not depend on any sort of sexual behaviour is the highest.
6. In this way goddesses go upto Sahasrara celestial region. For the
exposition of the question as to which regions the goddesses of different life-spans can visit refer to the commentary, folio 552 A.