Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals

Author(s): N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith

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Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals
A. This is not correct. The colouration is different from passions with respect to mild and intense volitions due to the realisation of passions.
The aural colouration has six varieties- (i) black (ii) blue (iii) grey (iv) yellow (v) red and (vi) white. It is formally designated as six-folded with reapect to the different superior or inferior states of impurity of the soul volitions.
Q. The canons point out that there is white aural colouration in the stages of subsided passion, destroyed passion and omnscience with activity (11-13th stages). How this could be realisational there because of the absence of passions?
A. This has been pointed out with respect to the former volitions which had passion-tinged character. It is, thus, formally called realisational. There is absence of these volitions in the 14th stage, and hence it is called 'noncolourated'.
Q.
As the non-knowledge is realisational, there could be non-conation also as realisational. The karmas of deep sleep etc. are realisational, the pains and pleasures are also realisational due to the realsation of feeling-producing karma, the quasi-passions of laughter etc. are already realisational. the duration, status, physiques etc. are also realisational due to the realisation of the respective karmas. They have not been included in the realisational volition varieties. Thus, its characterisation is not flawless.
It could not be contended that these body etc. are due to realisation of matter-maturing karmas and there is a topic of volitional description here. Hence they have not been included here. This will mean that still the soulmaturing karmas like the class etc. should be included here.
9. A. This is not correct. The non-conation is included in the variety of wrong faith. the deep sleep etc. are also included in it because of their general conation-obscuring nature.
Q.
It has been said that non-predilection in reals and realities is wrong faith. How it could include non-conation etc.?
A.
The non-conation is also a specific form of wrong faith. The specificity is always involved in generality. The non-conation also means nonknowledge which is also a form of wrong faith.
10. The variety of gender or libido includes nine quasi-passions like laughter, attachment etc. as they are mutually associative in character. It is just like the fact that when we say about a mountain, we always have 'Narada' (a mountain) taken as included.
11. The term destinity refers here to the class of volitions arising due to the realisationn of non-destructive karmas. It is illustrated by the fact that we refer to the class of destroyers by the word 'crow'. Thus, the term destinity also includes all the soul-maturing volitions arising due to realisation of the karmas
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