Book Title: Practical Dharma
Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Indian Press

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________________ BANDHA 25 (18) Atāpa, which makes a heat-producing and luminiferous body, 116 such as that of the prithvikāya jīvas (earth-bodied organisms) in the sun. (19) Udyota, the energy which produces a phosphorescent, that is, 117 luminous, but not heat-producing, organism, e.g., the body of a firefy. (20) Vihāyogati, the energy which enables one to fly, or move 118through the air. It is either śubha (graceful) or aśubha (not 119 graceful). (21) Breathing (uchchhvāsu). 120 (22) Trasa, which procures birth in the classes of jīvas above the 121 one-sensed type. (23) Sthāvara, which leads to birth in the class of one-sensed jīvas. 122 (24) Bādara, which produces a body capable of offering resistance 123 to, and of being resisted by, other bodies. (25) Sukşma, which produces a body incapable of offering resistance 124 to, or of being resisted by, others. (26) Paryāpti, that is, development, which is of six kinds, namely, 195 (a) the power to absorb nourishment, (6) the power to build the body from the nourishment absorbed, (c) the power to develop physical organs and faculties, including that of sense-perception, (d) the power to maintain breathing and circulation of blood, (e) the power of speech, and (f) the power of discrimination, or thinking, with the help of the physical organ of thought. (27) Aparyāpti, the energy which does not permit the development 126 of any of the six paryāptis or powers described under the next preceding head. (28) Pratyeka, which appropriates a body to one soul only. (29) Sadhārana, which enables a body to be appropriated by more 128 than one soul. one soul only. 127 F.4

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