Nature of Soul in Jainism Parapsychological View Point

Author(s): N M Kansara
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self-imposed painful way of strictly regulated norm of a life of perfectly desirable conduct which could be fully conductive to the total elimination of all kaşayas. And, their references to different leśyas with different hues clearly seems to refer to the auras of the astral bodies of the concerned persons referred to by them. In the last few years, Yuvācārya Mahaprajña has described these researches in the fields of parapsychology through the garb of the Jaina terminology 36, which should be quite clear as a result of the related material presented in these pages.
Annotations : 1. Umasvặti - Tattvarthadhigama-sutra, 2, 10 : Sansarino nuktas ca / 2. Vädi Devasüri - Pramäna-naya-tattvālokā'lamkāra, 7. 55-56 : Pramatā pratyaksādi-siddha ātmā
/Caitanya-svarüpah parināmi karta saksād-bhoktā sva-deha-parimanah prati-ksetram bhinnah
paudgalikādrstavāms că yam/ 3. Sanghavi, Pt. Sukhalal, Bharatiya Tattva Vidya, (Gujarāti), M. S. University of Baroda, Baroda
1958, pp. 54-55. 4. Umāsvāti - T. S., 5.3 : Nityavasthitänyarūpäni / 5. Uttarādhyayana-sutra, 28. 11 : Nanam ca damsanam c-eva caritam ca tavo tahi / Viriyam
uvaögo ya eyam jīvassa lakkhanam // 6. Umāsvāti - T. S. 2. 26, 29 : Vigraha-gatau karma-yogah / Vigrahavati ca prāk caturbhyah/ 7. Ganadharavada, Gathā 1638. 8. Umāsvāti - T. S., S. 15-16 : Asankhyeya-bhāgadişu jīvanam / Pradeśa samhára-visargābhyam
pradipαναt / 9. Samghavi, Bharatiya., p. 53. 10. ibid., p. 58. 11. Bhagavadgitā, 10. 16 : ...Siddhänām Kapilo munih / 12. Bhagavatam, 1. 3. 10 : Pañcamah Kapilo nama siddeśah kala-viplutam / Provācāsūraye
Samkhyam tattva-grāma-vinirnayan // 13. Brhad-yogi-yajñavalkya-smrti, 12.5 : Hiranyagarbho yoga-sya proktā nānyah kadācana / 14. Väyu-purana, 2. 3. 216. 15. Kathopanisad, 1. 2. 9. 16. Jainendra-siddhānta-kośa, Pt. II : Ed. Ksu. Jinendra Varni, Bharatīya Jñana pitha, Vārānasi
1944, pp. 330-338. 17. Pannavana-sutram, Ed. Pr. Bhagavāndās, p. 527. 18. Rāyapaseniya, Ed. Pt. Bechardas, p. 314. 19. Ibid. 20. Ibid. 21. Nona Coxhead, Windpower, Penguin Books, London 1976, pp. 17-25. 22. Ibid., pp. 257-262. 23. Ibid., pp. 218-220.