First Steps to Jainism Part 2

Author(s): Sancheti Asso Lal, Manakmal Bhandari
Publisher: Sancheti Trust Jodhpur

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First Steps to Jainism
(ii) vaikriya-sharira-naam-karma gives the transformation body which consists of fine matter, a body that changes in form and dimension. This body exists by nature in gods, infernal beings and certain animals; men can attain it through higher perfection.
(iii) aharaka-sharira-naam-karma gives the translocation body. This body which consists of good and pure substance and is without active and passive resistance. It is created for a short time by an pramatta-samyata-ascetic, in order to seek information concerning intricate dogmatic questions from an arhat who is in another part of the world, while his own physical body remains in its original place.
(iv) taijasa-sharira-naam-karma gives the fiery body. This body consists of fire pudgals and serves for the digestion of swallowed food. It can also be used by ascetics ro burn other beings or things.
(v) Karmana-sharir-riaan-karma gives the karman body. This body is the receptacle for karinan-matter. It changes every moment, because new karman is continually assimilated by the soul and the already existing one is consumed. Accompanied by it, the jiva at death leaves his body and betakes himself to the place of his new birth, where the karman body then forms the basis of the newly produced other bodies.
(d) Chief and Secondary Parts of the Bodies ---Three
The angopanga-naam-karma cause the origin of the chief parts of the bodies. The fiery and the karman-body have no parts; that is why there are only 3 angopanga-naam-karmas namely:
(i) audarika-angopanga-naam-karma which produce the chief and secondary parts of the physical body.
(ii) vaikriya-angopanga-naam-karma which produce the chief and secondary parts of the transformation body.
(iii) aharaka-angopanga-naam-karma which produce the chief and secondary parts of translocation body.
(e) Bindings--Five
The bapdhana-naam-karma provide that the newly seized pudgals of a body are united with those formerly assimilated ones into an organic entity, as wood sticks through an adhesive substance. According to the 5 bodies there are 5 binding-karmas :
(i) audarika-bandhana-naam-karma procures the binding of the physical body.
(ii) vaik riya-bandhan-naam-karma procures the binding of the transformation body.