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Question - What is this Dukha Vipak?
Answer - In Duhkha Vipak Shrut topics like cities, gardens, chaityas, forests, samavasarans, kings, parents, religious leaders, religious tales, special powers acquired during this birth and others, reincarnation in hell, again rebirth and expansion of cycles of rebirth, chain of sorrows, birth in lowly family, absence of possibility of enlightenment, etc. related to the duhkha vipakis (the beings who suffer sorrows as a consequence) have been discussed.
COMMENTARY - In the eleventh Anga, Vipak Shrut, the fruits of good and bad deeds have been explained with the help of examples It has two shrutskandhas --Duhkha Vipak and Sukha Vipak. In the first part, Dubkha Vipak, there are ten chapters. In these chapters the grim consequences of evil deeds like injustice, immorality, consuming meat and other such bad food, debauchery, going to prostitutes, stealing, etc. have been described with examples. All these examples and stories are in gripping style. The descriptions of consequent sufferings in the future births are horrifyingly vivid.
Question - What is this Sukha Vipak?
Answer - In Sukha Vipak topics like cities, gardens, chaityas, forests, Kingssamavasarans, parents, religious leaders, religious tales, special powers acquired during this birth and others, renouncing mundane indulgences, initiation, modes or variations, study of shrut, observation of austerities, ultimate vow, bhakt pratyakhyan, paadopagaman, reincarnation as gods, chain of happiness, again getting enlightened, and last rites, etc. related to the sukha vipakis (the beings who enjoy pleasures as a consequence) have been discussed.
In the second part, Sukha Vipak, also there are ten chapters. In these chapters are given the stories of life of those pious beings who gave charity to the deserving during their earlier birth and as a consequence were born as human beings. Due to their meritorious deeds they were endowed with immense wealth and grandeur. Even as human beings they spent their life in spiritualpursuits with detachment, and earned the meritorious karmas that lead to an incarnation as gods. They will get liberated in future.
Vipak Shrut has limited vachana (readings, lessons, compilations, editions). It has countable an upyogadwar, countable Verses, countable couplets, countable niryukti (parsing), countable sangrahanis, and countable pratipattis.
This Vipak Shrut is eleventh among the Angas. It has two shrutskandha (parts), 20 chapters, 20 uddeshan kaal, 20 samuddeshan kaal. Measured in pad (sentence units) it has countable thousand pad. It has countable alphabets, infinite gum (meanings) and infinite' paryaya (variations). It hasdescriptions of limited number of mobile beings, and infinite immobile beings. Established with the help of shashvat (eternal or fundamental), krit (created or experimented) and natural evidences, the tenets of the Jina have been stated (akhyayit), propagated (prajnapit), detailed (prarupit), explained (with the help of metaphors) (darshit), clarified (with the help of examples) (nidarshit), and simplified (with the help of discourse style) (upadarshit).
It has been presented in such charan-karan style that if a person is engrossed in its studies, he becomes a scholar and an expert of the subject.
This concludes the description of Vipak Shrut. 12. DRISHTIVAD SHRUT
[150] MEANING - Question - What is this Drishtivad? Aagam-44 - Nandi Sootra
138 - Compiled by- Deepratnasagar
