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Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals
Jina images (v) celestial miracles. [Thus, a total of five factors are there to cause subsidence].
There are many types of favourable time. The general favourable time is that when the karmically bound liberatable being becomes capable of attaining the first stage of right faith at a time when only the half-matterchange-time (Ardha-pudgala-parivartana) is remaining. He cannot attain it if more-than this time is remaining. This is the first favourable time. The second type of favourable time is related with the duration of karmas. There is no attainment of the first stage of right faith under the maximum or minimum duration of karmic bonding. One becomes capable of attaining this stage of right faith (i) when the living being binds karmas of less than 10 Sagaropama years of duration and (ii) when the duration of the earlier-earned karmas has also been reduced to the duration of 10" Sagaropamas less by numerable thousand Sagaropmas through the volitional purity of the living.
Karmic-Durational favourable time = 10'S - N x 10'S
where S is Sagaropama years and N is numerable number.
The third type of favourable time is related with birth or modal states. Any liberatable, five-sensed instincitve, completioned, wrong-faithed and volitionally pure can attain the first stage of right faith. As soon as one attains it, he undergoes volitional purity in an Antarmuhurta (app. 48 minutes) and divides the wrong-faith karma in terms of three subspecies of faith-deluding karmarighteousness, wrongness and right-cum-wrongness.
Where does the subsidence of faith-deluding karma occur?
The above subsidence process occurs in all the four destinities. It is only the completioned hellish beings in the seven hells who are capable of attaining the first stage of right faith after their first Antarmuhurta of residence there. The hellish beings in the first three upper hells attain the first stage of right faith through three factors- (i) pre-birthal recollection (ii) listening to religious sermons and (iii) experiencing the pain-producing karmic realisation. The hellish beings in the lower four hells attain the first stage of right faith through two factors only, (i) and (iii) above.
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All the subhumans of all the continents and oceans attain the right-faith stage under their completioned state only and that too not before 3-9 days of their birth in this destinity. There are three factors which lead to righteousness among these sub-humans- (i) pre-birthal recollection (ii) listening to religious sermons and (iii) sight of Jina images.
The human beings of two-and-half continents attain righteousness under their completioned state only and that too not before the age of little more than eight years. They can attain it through any or all of the factors mentioned in the case of sub-humans.
The celestials residing upto the upper Graiveyakas (celestial abodes) can attain righteousness under their completioned state only and that too after an
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