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omniscient, the soul pervades the whole cosmic space, enduring for eight instants. In this process, in the first four instants, the omniscient projects its points outside the body and successively assumes the shape of (vertical) column, door-panel and churning device and fills up the interspaces (by rotation), thus covering the whole cosmic space. In the succeeding four instants, the soul withdraws to the original shape of the body in the reverse order (i.e., in the fifth instant it reverts to the shape of churning device by withdrawing the points from the interspaces by anti-rotation, in the sixth to that of door-panel, in the seventh to column and finally in the eighth to the original shape).
Of the eight instants, the first and the eighth are attended with corporeal gross activity; the second, sixth and seventh with the grossmixed; and the third, fourth and fifth with the karmic one.. ३१. औपपा तक-चरमशरीर-उत्तमपुरुष-असंख्येयवर्षायुषो निरुपक्रमायुषः ।
उपक्रमः--अपवर्तनमल्पीकरणमित्यर्थः । निबिडबन्धनिमित्तत्वात् तद्रहितायुषो निरुपक्रमायुषः । औपपातिकाः-नारकदेवाः । चरमशरीराः-तद्भवमुक्तिगामिनः । उत्तमपुरुषाः-चक्रवर्त्यादयः । असंख्य
वर्षायुषः-यौगलिका नरास्तिर्यञ्चश्च । 31. aupapātika-caramaśarīra-uttamapuruşa-asamkhyeyavarşāyuşo nirupa
kramayusah. upakramaḥ-apavartanam alpīkaranam ity arthaḥ. nibidabandhanimittatvāt tadrahitāyuso nirupakramāyusah. aupapātikāḥ---nārakadevāḥ. caramaśarīrāḥ--tadbhavamuktigāminah. uttamapuruşāḥ, cakravartyādayah. asaṁkbyavarṣāyuṣaḥ-yaugalikā narās tiryancàś ca. ..
(Aph.) The following are not subject to abrupt end of life-span : beings of spontaneous birth (aupapātikas), human beings in their last birth, extraordinary personalities and those enjoying a life-span of innumerable years. (XXXI)
(Gloss) abrupt end (upakrama) means reduction, i.e., shortening (of the life-span). Such persons are not subject to abrupt end because their life-span is unamenable to reduction on account of the high density of the bondage of the span-determining karman. The aupapātikas comprise the denizens of hells and heavens. The human beings in their last birth comprise those who are destined to attain the emancipation in that very birth. The extraordinary personalities comprise universal monarchs (cakravarti) and the like (viz. the 63 salākā puruşas).
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