Gommatasara Jiva Kanda

Author(s): Nemichandra Siddhant Chakravarti, J L Jaini
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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riyaka, transformable) body of celestial and hellish beings, and the assimilative body in case of saints. These molecules must be reduced to a primary solid and liquid form. The completion of the capacity to do it is the Assimilative (Áháraka) Development. The solid portions develop into bone etc., hard substances, and the liquid into blood, bile etc. the fluid substances of the body. The completion of the capacity to do it, is the body (Sharira) Development. The molecular matter assimilated by the soul is further formed into senseorgans, the completion of the capacity to do it is the sense (Indriya) Development. The wear and tear of the body is made up by ceaseless Respiration. The completion of the capacity for respiration is the Ana-pána-Development. The completion of the capacity to form speech-molecules and mind-molecules into speech and mind, is respectively the speech and mind Development.
The beginning of the acquiring of 4, 5 or 6 capacities is simultaneous; but their completion is in the order in which they are named above. And from the first kind each successive development takes more time to complete itself than its predecessor. But each one individually, and all the 6 collectively never take more than one (Antara muhúrta, the minimum of which is one wink (Ávalí) and one instant (Samaya), and maximum is 48 minutes minus one instant.
But a completely undevelopable (Labdhi-aparyáptaka) soul does not complete its capacities to develop, and dies within one antar-muhúrta, which is one eighteenth of one pulse-beat.
The Nuclei (Yonis).
The Yoni is the womb or other physical centre or nucleus where the incarnating soul find its lodgment at conception. According to Jainism, such a nucleus may be cold, hot, covered or open, living or non-living, or a combination of these 3 pairs. Thus primarily yonis are of 9 kinds.
But with their classes and sub-classes they are 84 lacs. The 84 lacs of nuclei for birth of souls are as follows:One-Sensed beings:
Earth-bodied
Water-bodied
Fire-bodied
Air-bodied
Vegetables
Non-one-souled.
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