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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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Chhevaththa Sanghayana is possessed of double or triple strength.
son with Vajra-rushabha-naracha-sanghayana is possessed of half the strength of Vasudeva. We have already described the strength of Vasudeva in the fourteenth discourse.
Once upon a time, a Rajput was initiated as a monk. He was a non-vegetarian as a house-holder, but naturally he had to abandon eating meat after his initiation. This monk usually got most intensive sleep viz. Thinnadani. Someday he saw a healthy and intoxicated male buffallo on his way. He thought, "What a good luck if I could eat meat of such a corpulent buffalo !” But as he was a monk his thought was not fulfilled with actual practice.
All night he fell into very intensive sleep. He got up in sleep, caught hold of that buffalo, slaughtered it with some sharp weapon and ate the meat of that buffalo. The meat which was surplus was spread by him in the terrace for drying. Thereafter he returned and slept at his proper place.
In the rnorning some monks who entered the terrace were shocked to find meat lying there. They thought how meat was brought over in such a sacred place! On inquiry, they found that the clothes of that Rajput monk were stained with blood. On being asked, he replied, that he knew nothing about it. Gathering circumstantial evidence they knew that the Rajput monk usually got intense sleep and during that intense sleep, he had slaughtered a buffalo and had consumed the meat of the said animal. That monk was turned out because a person in the habit of falling in intense sleep is not qualified fo monkish life.
Even now, we come across such incidents of intense sleep and modern psychology has described it as a peculiar type of sleep.
The authors of the scripture have declared that such persons with intense sleep attain their position in hell after death unfailingly. Those very six causes or factors by which soul contracts knowledgeobscuring Karma are the very six causes or factors by which soul contracts intuition-obscuring Karmas. There is only one point of difference, and that is, knowledge-obscuring Karma is contracted by lowering the dignity of the man with knowledge and of knowledge; while intuition-obscuring-Karma is contracted by lowering the dignity of intuition and the man with intuition.
