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namely: ambrosia aharak-vaikriya labdhi, vtpul tejoleshya, janghacharan, vidyacharan, etc. are the 'onesendowed with special powers'. Some of these powers are as follows:
Atishayini buddhi (supreme intelhgence) - This is of three types -
(a) Koshtak buddhi - the capacity to retain all the listened scriptural knowledge in memory.
(b) Padanusarini buddhi - The capacity to understand the complete chapter or lesson by listening tojust one stanza.
(c) Beej buddhi - the capacity to understand all themeanings of all related texts by understanding the meaning of justone stanza.
Ambrosia labdhi - The person with this power can curelncurable diseases with a mere touch.
Janghacharan labdhi - The power to transport oneselfquickly to any desired destination; aerial transportation. There are numerous such powers that can be acquired with thehelp of discipline and austerities. Some of these are audayik orcaused by fruition of past karmas, others are kshayopashamik orcaused by suppression-cum-extinction of related karmas, and still others are kshayih or caused by extinction of related karmas. A detailed discussion of such powers (labdhis) is available in the 20th shatak of Bhagavati Sutra. Commentator Malayagiri has also discussed this topic in his commentary (tika-teht).
Those who have not been able to acquire any such powers are the ones not endowed with special powers'.
The above mentioned nine requirpments can be divided into four categories - paryaptak, garbhaj, and manushya related to matter; karmabhumij. Related to area or space; life-span of samkhyat years related to time, and Samyak-drishti, samyat, apramatt, having labdht related to attitude or mode. Thus only when all these requirements related to matter, space, time, and mode are met the process of kshayopasham of the knowledge veiling karmas takes place and Manah-paryav jnana is acquired, otherwise not.
TYPES OF MANAH-PARYAV JNANA
[082] MEANING -In terms of potency this Manah-paryav jnana is of two types - riju (lesser) mati and vipul (greater) mati. These in turn have four categories each - (1) with reference to matter, (2) with reference to area or space, (3) with reference to time, and (4) with reference to mode.
(1) With reference to matter - a rujumati sees and knows infinite skandhas (blocks) having infinite sections or parts generally or in brief and specially or in detail; a vipul mati seesand knows these blocks in slightly greater detail, with slightly better clarity and with a little more certainty.
(2) With reference to area or space - a rijumati sees and knows an area equivalent to a minimum of inexpressible fraction of an angul and a maximum of up to the lowest subtle level of Ratnaprabha hell towards nadir, the highest level of the Jyotish ehakra, and all human inhabited areas in other spatial directions including fifteen karmabhumis, thirty akarmabhumis, and fifty six intermediate islands existing in adhai-dveep-samudra (two and a half continents and oceans).
He also knows the thoughts and feelings within the minds of fully developed sentient five-sensed beings living in the said areas. A vipul mati sees these thoughts and feelings in slightly greater detail, with slightly better clarity and with a little more certainty covering two and a half angul more area. Aagam-44 - Nandi Sootra
~ 40 - Compiled by- Deepratnasagar
