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particles. It is possessed of the power of digesting the food materials we take. The inner subtle body which is the seed of all mental and motor activities is called karmic body. It is composed of the eight types of karmas. With this background in mind we, now, proceed to the various types of physical activity.
According to different combinations of the five kinds of bodies, there are seven varieties of physical activity.” (1) Corresponding to gross body we have the first variety, viz., the activity of gross body. Similarly, there is (2) the activity of transformable body, (3) that of projectable body, (4) that of karmic body. The last three are the mixed activities. They are (5) the activity of gross body mixed with that of karmic body, (6) the activity of transformable body mingled with that of karmic body or that of gross body, and (7) the activity of projectable body mixed with that of gross body. Why there are only seven kinds of physical activity when it is possible to have more than seven combinations of the five kinds of bodies? For instance, what is the reason in not admitting the activity of transformable body mixed with that of projectable body? For the understanding of this problem let us point out certain Jaina conceptions regarding the possession of various kinds of bodies. The last two bodies (electric and karmic) are always associated with every being. At the time of transmigration only these two bodies are possessed by the self. It can possess at the most four bodies at one and the same time." Obviously, it is an impossibility to possess all the five bodies simultaneously, since transformable body and projectable body never exist together. Thus, when there is a co-existence of two bodies they are electric and karmic; when it is of three they are either electric, karmic, and gross or electric, karmic, and transformable; when it is of four they are either electric, karmic, gross, and transformable or electric, karmic, gross, and projectable. Bearing this conception in mind, we, now, come to the examination of the seven varieties of physical activities.
1 Outlines of Jaina Philosophy, p. 78. 2 Tathākāyayogaḥ saptadhā......
Karma-grantha, IV, p. 151. 3. Tadădini bhājyāni yugapadekasyā caturbhyaḥ.
Tattvärtha-sūtra, II, 44. 4 Tattvārtha-sūtra-vivecana (Sukhalalji), p. 106.
