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residence of heaven, hell and crosswise in the case of triyak-gati (lower animal)
The movement of jīva is with the help of the sūkşmaśarīra (subtle body), as the gross body is no longer. But the gross body will be created in next life with saṁskāra and with the help of the subtle body and energy available.
The question is asked, if the gross body were not there, there would be no sense organs and if the sense organs are not there, there would be no cognition or sensing of the direction. In that case how can the jīva continue its journey in proper way?
Bhagavāna Mahāvīra clarified this point saying that there are no physical sense organs (dravyendriyas) but the function of the sense organs is not altogether lost. They are expressed through Taijasa and kārmaņaśarīra", just as the modern machines are controlled by electric motivations through the computers. We can, therefore, say that during the movement of Jīva from one body to other, there may not be the physical sense organs, but there is the presence of the psychic sense organs.
Jaina philosophy maintains four birth categories of gods, men, hellish being and tiryañcas (those going horizontally e.g. animals), which are almost similar to Indian philosophers. Each of these categories is generally associated with a particular vertically ordered tier of three dimensional universe; men for example dwell in the centrally located “madhyaloka”, gods above them in the “devaloka” and hell beings below in the various infernal regions."
Emancipated souls the Liberated ones or siddhas, who are out of the cycle of birth and death, and said to have gone beyond
34 Tattvārtha-sūtra, II.37 "Dr. Padmanabh S. Jaini, “Collected papers on Jaina Studies”, P-137-138
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