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Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals
The destruction-cum-subsidential (psychical) senses cannot exist under destructional knowledge. Thus, the psychical mind should be taken as specific destruction-cum-subsidence of knowledge. However, it is observed that the psychical mind is inseparable with physical mind under certain conditions. They may be cause and effects. Nevertheless, the reverse is neither canonically nor logically always correct.
9. The living beings which do not have the specific instincts of education etc. are called non-Instinctive here. They do not, thus, have the psychical mind. Thus, they also do not seem to have the physical mind. Hence, those living beings who do not possess this specific mind are non-Instinctive worldly beings. However, these beings are found to have general instincts. Vidyananda points out that this description about the differences between the two types of minds is based on collective and analytic standpoints.
If the activity of thinking about the desirable and undesirable is the function of mind, what will be the cause of activity of the living being who has left the old body and moving towards accepting a new one and is devoid of mind?
Alternatively, if the living beings move due to mental thoughts, how they have transmigratory motion for accepting a new origin and body after losing their earlier bodies and getting devoid of mind? The next aphorism intends to respond to this question:
Vigraha-gatau Karma-yogah
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The transmigratory motion involves the activity of karmic body only. 1. The transmigratory motion is meant for acquiring a new body. The term 'vigraha' (body)- gati (motion) has a derivative meaning. It is the movement for new body as during the process the soul acquires mattergic particles capable of formation of new body due to the realisation of physiquemaking karma of gross body.
Alternatively, 'vigraha' means body which is acquired by the wordly soul. Thus, transmigratory motion or activity is that which is meant for this body.
Q. There is compounding of words when there is relationship of an entity and change in it like gold ring. However, in the case of transmigratory motion, there is no such relationship. Hence, there may not be compounding here. A. This is not a flaw. There is compounding here as in the case of horsegrass (gross for horse) etc. It is with this intention that the fourth (grammatical) case has been used.
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There may be a second meaning for transmigratory motion. The word 'vigraha' means obstruction. The intake of quasi-karmic mattergy is obstructed during this type of motion whereas normal karmic intake is there. Thus, the
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