Essentials of Samadhishataka

Author(s): B M Chamke
Publisher: S B Chamke Barshi

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species; if for example he is in the form of human being, he thinks to be a human being, if in the form of animals, Gods or the beings that are enduring their bad fruits of the past karma, Naraki, gets fully deluded by the misunderstanding that he is of that category. In reality this is not the self for being one, eternal and invariable, it is a hallucinatory make up of the mind that the self goes on varying essentially along with the body forms.
The jiva is detained, due to its ignorance and faulty behaviour withim this four types of levels of existence. Until and un/ses it assumes these variety of organic forms, it is supposed to belong to whatever has beginning and end. Everything in this world is destructible and destroyable but the self, though its external appearance alters or varies and gets fully smashed, is never affected and remains unchanged for ever.
Man form, animal form, etc. are external and temporary karmika conditions of the jivas. When the flow of karma terminates, the external form