Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals

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

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Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals
of physique-making, feeling-producing, life-span determining of and statusdetermining.
The aphorism 2.6 should be supplied with the word 'respectively' from the earlier aphorism 2.2 so that the destinities etc. should be related with the number four etc. in order.
Suppementary Notes
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(a)
enumerated in terms of their main and sub-classes.
(b) The different causes for these varieties being realisational have also been mentioned along with their definition and external forms.
(c) The aural colouration has been pointed out to be different from the activities and passions due to their different intensities on the basis of passional realisation.
(d) A logical justification has been given for non-inclusion of mattermaturing varieties of many types on the basis of the fact that this is a case of soul-maturing varieties.
2.
It may be contended that there are 122 or 148 karmic subspecies whose realisation could cause the same nunber of volitions and not 21 only as mentioned here. It does, however, not seem to be proper as the 21 realisational varieties involve all types of realisational volitions. Only the main types have been indicated here which implicate all the varieties:
The commentary deals with the following points:
The twenty one varieties of realisational volition have been
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Physique-making karma
Soul-maturing non-destroying karmas (Life-span, status-determining, feeling
producing)
Deluding karma
Conation-obscuring karma Knowledge-obscuring karma Obstucting karma
All the eight karmas
Matter-maturing karmic species
Implicated by destinity
Destinity
(colourations too)
Passions, quasi-passions,
Sex (libido and physical)
Wrong faith, restraint-cum-non-restraint Wrong faith, ignorance Ignorance,
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The aural colourations have additional two varieties, good or bad. The first three are bad while the last three are good.
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The realisational volitions are eternal for non-liberatables and mostly beginningless with end for the liberatables.
The realisation of karmas can be proved by the inference as below: Karmas undergo realisation somewhere as there is experience about the defilement of the wordly soul like muddy water. The pure soul has intrinsic
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Non-liberatability Not implicated