ISJS Jainism Study Notes E5 Vol 02

Author(s): International School for Jain Studies
Publisher: International School for Jain Studies

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Upadhana Sruta
Mahāparinna
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Chapter wise brief is given below:
Sastra Parijñā: Knowledge of the weapons of violence.
Six types of living beings according to their body form (şatjivanikaya)
The first chapter has a unique description about life in different beings from stationery/ immobile (sthāvara) living beings with one sense organ and those with trasa /mobile bodies having two to five sense organs and mind. These six types of living beings, namely those with earth, water, fire, air and vegetation as their bodies and belonging to sthavara category and the rest to the mobile category (ants, mosquitoes, animals, birds, human beings etc.).
The life /soul in sthavara beings is justified and explained based on their ability to get born, grow and decay, breath, feelings, subtle body, concrete or being cognizable by senses. Acarariga proves life in these beings by a number of examples and logical discussions e.g.
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" Acārānga (Āyāro), Sutra, 1-130
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SUPREME AUSTERITY
Farenga
Pillow of righteousness i.e. conduct of Mahāvīra during penance in erring state (chadmastha). Lost.
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A healthy human being, when inflicted with 32 types of pains simultaneously, cannot express the same. Similarly the sthāvara beings even though they feel cannot express their feelings.
When a person is made unconscious by others, the unconscious person cannot express his feelings; similarly the sthavara beings cannot express their feelings.
⚫ Air and water get polluted and decay by different types of effluents like human beings get suffocated or even die by different types of effluents.
Fire grows when fuel is added to it. It dies when it is starved of fuel like human beings grow with the food they eat and die in the absence of food for long periods.
Like human beings, plans are seen to be born, grow, express feelings and die.
A human being, who is devoid of his speech and eye senses, feels the pains of pricking /cutting etc of his body and. yet he cannot express these. Similar is the situation of the sthavara beings.
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