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Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals
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Additional Note on 2.44: Pt. Sukhlalji, in his Hindi commentary, has pointed out partial receivership of luminous body through its different functions like experiencing of pain and pleasure and bestowing cursing and kindness. The liminous body is possessed by all the worldly living beings mostly in nonmanifest way. However, in some cases of specially restrained beings, it is sometimes in manifest form. But it does not cause vibrations/activity in the soul space points.
In case of karman body too, it may be called as an indirect means of receiving sense objects. The Table-6 summarises the details of the five bodies described under aphorisms 2.36-2.48 on the next page 175.
The following aphorism describes the body mentioned after the transformable body and its possessors:
Subham Visuddham- avyāghāti Ca-āhārakam
2.49
Pramatta-sanyatasya-eva
The ejectable body is auspicious, pure and non-obstructive. It is originated only from the saintly persons of the sixth spiritual stage of vigilant restraint.
1.
The ejectable body has been formally called auspicious' in the aphorim because it is the cause of the physical activities of ejectable body due to auspicious karmas. It is observed that in general usages also, the cause is mentioned as effect. It can be illustrated by the usage, 'foods are the vitalities' whereas foods are the causes of vitalities.
2. The ejectable body has also been called as pure as it is the effect of undefiled and pure merited karmas. This is like the designation of cotton for the cotton fibres. The fibres will have the quality of purity equivalent to that of the
cotton.
3.
The ejectable body is called non-obstructive as it neither obstructs others, not it is obstructed by others in its sphere of action. Thus, it is nonobstructive on both counts.
4.
The word 'ca' has been included to indicate the use of the ejectable body. When there are no omniscients in the Bharata and Airavata regions and there would be large non-restraint when one goes to the omniscients in Mahavideha region through his gross body, the sixth stager saints form and eject the ejectable body- (i) to remove their doubts about fine objects (ii)sometimes for ascertaining the possession of specific super-attainment (iii) sometimes for ascertaining the true nature of objects and (iv) sometimes to observe the true restraint.
5. The word 'ejectable body' is repetitively mentioned to indicate that these qualities are the differentia of this body.
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