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Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals
vessel through filtration. The volitions leading to the destruction of karmas are called destructional volitions. 3. The mixed volition has a dual nature. It is observed that the kodrava grains show a dual nature with respect to their partial loss or non-loss of inoxication power by specific wash-waters. Similarly, the volitions have mixed or destruction-cum-subsidential nature due to the afore-said causes leading to the destruction of part of the karmas and partial subsidence of karmic power. This type of dual-natured volitions are called mixed volitions. (Sarvārtha-siddhi also illustrates the mixed process). 4. The realisation (or rise) is the process of frutition of karmas due to (external or internal) factors of substantive, locational, temporal and modal nature. The volitions causing karmic realisation are termed as realisational volitions. (It causes blemish on the soul just as dirt causes muddiness in water). 5. The volitions originating in the nature of reals themselves irrespective of other causes like karmic subsidence etc. are known as inherence. Such volitions are termed as inherent volitions. 6. The aphorism indicates the objective character of these volitions. The volitions are subsidential when their object is karmic subsidence. And so on for other types of volitions. These volitions are the distinctive or self-differentia the living beings. 7. Q. The realisational and inherent volitions are found in all the living beings and, therefore, they are generally more pervasive. These two volitions should, therefore, be enumerated in the first two places in aphorism 2.1. A. This is not necessary. The subsidential etc. volitions have been enumerated in the first places as this text is intended for describing the special characteristics of the liberatable beings. And subsidential volitions etc. are the special ones for them. 8. The subsidential volitions have been given the first place as the right faith is always subsidential in the beginning. It is followed gradually by destruction-cum-subsidential and destructional volitions.
Moreover, the subsidential volitions are shorter in duration of their accumulation in comparision to the other two volitions. The time for subsidential right faith is Antarmuhurta (app. 48 mts.) which has innumerable Samaya units. The subsidential rightfaithed ones could be equal to an innumerableth part of the Palya (a pit-based larger unit) as a maximum even after continuous accumulations per Samaya unit. Thus, they are the least in number. Sub. rt. faithed = 1/A P :[A : innumerable, P: Palya
A: Antarmuhurta, S : Samaya units ) 10.
The destructional volition is the second in order as it is superior to the subsidential one with respect to purity due to total destruction of karmic subspecies of wrong faith, right-cum-wrong faith and right faith.
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