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Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals
motion through obstruction of quasi-karmic intakes is also termed as transmigratory motion.
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The term 'karma' here means the karmic body which is the root cause of all other bodies.
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The term 'yoga' or 'activity' is the vibration of soul spacepoints due to the variforms of body, mind and speech due to karmic body is the karmic activity. Thus, during transmigratory motion, there is activity due to karmic body only following death. This causes the intake of karmas and transition from one region to another region. This transit motion is unobstructed even for the living beings with non-mind-possessing character. Supplementary Notes
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The commentary deals with the following ponts:
(a) The term 'vigraha' has many meanings. There is no acquirement of new quasi-karmas but there may be acquirement of mattergic entities. The motion for acquirement of new embodiment is called transmigratory motion. (b) There is activity of soul spacepoints due to karmic body existing during transmigratory motion. This motion is also found in case of the nonmind-possessing beings.
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This aphorism is based on the concept of rebirth- i.e. there is life after death for the worldly beings. The aphorism indicates how they attain the new life for living body or non-embodied state of liberation.
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When the worldly living being dies, most of the intakes of gross material karmic variforms stop. The grosser variforms of speech and mind are also not intaken in this condition. It is only the fine karmic body which accompanies the living being after his worldly death. It also intakes form the surroundings the other karmic variforms during its transmigratory motion as karmons and karmic aggregates are pervasive everywhere. These are associated with the impulse from earlier body which causes the transmigratory motion involving soul spacepoint vibrations and moves with an arrow-like motion. This impulse allows motion for one Samaya only. The motion for the succeeding Samayas require additional impulse from the associated or newly intaken karmic body. Thus, the karmic body serves three purposes- (i) intake of new karmic variforms (ii) shedding of some pre-associated karmic variforms and (iii) motional activity due to earlier impulse. It is said that karmic body activity is also found during world-fulfilling and crossing-over extrications besides the transmigratory motions.
The worldly wanderings have two forms- (i) translational involving locational movement and (ii) same-birthal involving rebirth in the same earlier form of life. In both the cases, transmigratory motion takes place. It takes place between the two bodies- left-over and the acceptable ones.
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There cannot be transmigratory motion without karmic activity. In its absence, the living being will be inactive like the space and it will be like the
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