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GUIDELINES FOR AROUSING ENERGY
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“From where does vīrya come ?” "It flows from the body.” "From where does the body come ?”
"Son, it comes from the jīva." There can be no further question. The jiva produces the body, the body produces vīrya, vīrya produces yoga, yoga produces self-negligence and self-negligence produces the bondage of karma. That is the order in which the world process goes on.
The assertion of the Vedānta school of philisophy that the unconsciousness is produced by the conscious seems 10 be correct in a way. Bhagavan Mahāvira asserted that the jiva produces the body or consciousness produces the unconscious. Both the assertions are correct from the relative point of view. They are relative assertions based on their own assumptions.
Who is the creator of the body ? The jīva alone is the creator of the body and it creates the body of its own accord. If there were no jīva, there will be no body. Sarira paryāpti (potential body), ahāra paryāpti (food potential), language, mind and breath are produced by the jīva only. All these are material entities constituted by pudgala particies but not created by pudgala. Pudgala ( atomic ) particles spread across the sky can be converted into language, mind, breath, and body. It is the jiva which converts them. The jiva is a great creator. It creates gross entities out of of subtle entities. It is the creator of all kinds of subtle and gross things. All the pudgalas, whether subtle or gross, which are being used by man are nothing but the evolutes of jīva. What we eat is nothing but the physical form of the jiva. Whatever we eat, wear, sit or sleep on is the body of the jīva.
There are two categories which we have to consider : 1. The body with jīva, and 2. The body without jīva.
Although the entire world-process has been set in motion by the jīva, the jīva itself remains hidden behind a curtain. Proponents of the doctrine that God created the world also hold
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