________________
I am the Soul
757
So just as the bird species is such that jivas born there inevitably get wings at birth, the jivas born in heaven or hell also invariably get Avadhijnana. The devas view their own and others' previous births through Avadhijnana. Indeed, some samakit devas, through their knowledge, foresee the time of happenings of janma, deeksha, kevaljnana and moksa in the life of the Tirthankars and join in to celebrate those events in this mortal world.
Even the naraki jivas are able to view their own previous births through their Avadhijnana; they recollect their enmity with other jivas earlier, and if those jivas too are born in the hell, they avenge themselves. The extent of revenge that can be taken in hell cannot be matched anywhere else. What does a jiva do to extract revenge in human or animal species? At best it can kill the enemy. If the passions are at the extreme, it might even dismember the cadaver of the rival into pieces. What more can it do? While in the hell, the naraki jivas' bodies are such that even if they are cut up into pieces as small as mustard seeds, they get together like mercury and the entire body gets recreated. In other words, they do not die at all. However, the torture of being cut up has to be suffered. This happens thousands and millions of times in their lives, they undergo the torture and get recreated. Therefore, in hell, enmity can be avenged to the fullest. Those jivas, which enter into a vicious enmity, have to enter the hell to repay it, where at the least the life would be ten thousand years long and at most in terms of sagaropam time, which we cannot even imagine. So this is how the Avadhijnana is used in hell.
The fourth is Manahparyavajnana. This jnana occurs through the kshayopashama of manahparyavajnanavarniya, only to those nirgrantha munis observing the five great vows while at the seventh gunasthana, apramatta sanyati and labdhidhar great souls, and not to others. Those minds which possess this jnana are able to know the minds of other jivas at all times.
Jain Educationa International
For Personal and Private Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
