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Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals
body of human beings as not different from gross body as it is produced due to specific austerities. However, its possibility should be mentioned there. 3. The TSB indicates an opinion about the commonality of one bodykarman only excluding the luminous body which occurs only under transmigratory motion. However, besides this, the luminous body either attainmental or non-attainmental is always simultaneously found along with karman body. This opinion leads to seven alternatives for the minimum and maximum simultaneity of bodies as below:
1.
One body
Karman only
Under transmigratory motion
Two bodies
Three bodies
Hellish/celestials Some beings only Sixth stager
(a) Karman and gross (b) Karman and Transformational (a) Karman, gross and
Transformational (b) Karman, gross, ejectable (a) Karman, Luminous, gross and
Transformational (b) Karman, Luminous, gross and ejectable
Four bodies
Some human beings
Sixth stager
P.
4. It can easily be guessed that the spacepoints of the living being can be simultaneously associated with many existing bodies like the illumination of many objects by the lamp. 5. It is said that there cannot be a maximum of five bodies associated with an embodied soul because the simultaneous existence of transformational and ejectable bodies is not permitted. These bodies are developed under nonvigilant conditions. However, the ejection of ejectable body produces comparatively vigilant and pure volitional state while the emission of transformable body produces non-vigilant state only. Thus, they cannot occur simultaneously
It can, thus, be said that though there may be capacity for possessing all the five bodies in the living beings with reference to time, but they cannot be simultaneously manifest.
The following aphorism gives one more point about the above bodies
Nirupabhogam-antyam
2.44 The last body-named karman is devoid of receiving or enjoying the sense-objects. 1. The last body is the karman body according to the order of bodies in 2.36. This aphorism will, therefore, mean that the karman body is devoid of
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