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(164) : Nandanavana
3.
F
4. Death delay . Medication, Meditation Medication, Meditation,
Chilling, Under-eating, Telomer control, reducing
neurological defects etc. Full span of life Excellent-bodied, Long- No restriction
lived 6. Transmigration Yes
Can't say While the canonical concepts of continual death represent quite a fine observation, other forms of death are factors of death rather than forms of death. In contrast, medical biologists have indicated two forms of deaths-in one heart beat, pulse beat stop functioning while the brain functions for some time, in the other the brain also stops functioning - thus all functioning mechanisms stop working. Secondly, man has always been thinking of immortality. The biologists have been successful in lengthening the life of many creatures even ten-fold. They have also been successful in increasing the longevity of life by many other physical methods shown in Table 9. The canons have a restricted view about this concept because of limitations due to life-span karma. Of course, austerities and mediators may have much longer life. However, it seems the biologists are moving towards overcoming control of life-span karma for the process of longevity. (d) Transmigratory Phenomena
The T.S. 2.25-30 describes the after-death phenomenon. In fact, these aphorisms should have been placed in the end of the chapter two after describing irreducibility of life span. These six aphorisms point out that the living beings have Trans-migratory motions for 1-3 (or four) Samayas to acquire new state of birth after their this -worldly death.
The T.S. 2 is mostly concerned with the physical aspects of living - mind, senses, bodies, birth, gender and vitalities keeping their psychic aspects underground. Nearly 70% (37/53) of this chapter deals with these aspects. The volitions are generally psychophysical. The above aphorisms seem to indicate a new aspect of Jiva, which seems more than physical adding to the psychic phenomena. The Ācārya was not only reformist but a traditionalist also. He has reformed/reframed many concepts without much deviation from
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