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* JAINISM IN BRIEF OUTLINE
Utpada vyaya dhrauvya yuktam Sat le. All that exist have origination, mutatation and permanance.
Universe
Jiva (Life) 1
Ajiva (Non-Life)
i.e
Liberated i.e.Siddhas Tirthankaras Arihantas Kevalis
Embodiedie. Pudgala Dharma Adharma Akasha Kala Life as we know i.e.atoms i e.
1 i.e.
ie, & moleculs medium medium Space, a Time a
I for for medium medium I Visible Invisible. move- rest. for for extension,
(subtle such ment, subsistance change & as karma)
I duration.
Loka-akasha
where Life & Non-Life can exist.
Aloka-akasha
ie, Voids,
Mobile i. e. capable of motion (visible)
Immobile but capable of growing. Ekendriya i.e. Life
with one sense-organ only. Panchendriya. Chouindriya Tri-indriya Dwi-indriya
(some capable
of invisible motion) i.e. pentasensic, Quadrasensic, trisensic Bisensic with all five with only with only with only senses
four senses three two senses.
senses
Vegetation
Earth & earth bodies
Water & water bodies
Air and air. -bodies
Fire and fire. -bodies inclusive of heat & light
Single Soul, visible plants, trees etc.
Group-soul (invisible j.e. Nigoda-kaya whose functions of Life such as respiration, feelings of pleasure and pain etc., are common.
* Prepared for the Jain Society of Rochester N. Y. (U.S.A.) on February 16, 1986 by the Author delivering a talk to them.
prepared for ehe Jain Society of Roch
