Book Title: Practical Path
Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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________________ Jain Education International 8 one-sensed type (58), 9 two-sensed type (54), 10 three-sensed type (55), who seeing a Tirthamkara* are moved by the desire to become like Him, while ahůraku sharira and ahâraka ångopanga are only acquired by munis (ascetics), not by those involved in gross ignorance; and samyaga mithyátva and samyakt va prakriti are never actually engendered but arise from the quiescence or elimination of mithyátva. They represent two different degrees of the intensity of the same force, and indicate, as it were, the less and the least intenso forms of mithyâtva respectively. For this reason they will not be shown in the list of the bandha prakritis, though they will be enumerated under column 5. 11 four-sensed type (56), 12 âtápu (116), 13 sthavara (122), For Private & Personal Use Only 14 sadhârana(128), 15 sukshma (124) STAGES ON THE PATH. and It may also be stated here that these 143 prakritis are generally shown as 117 in the Jaina books. The explanation of the difference lies in the fact that the five energies of varna (Nos. 89-93), two of gandha (Nos. 94 and 95), five of rasu (Nos. 96-100), and eight of sparsa (Nos. 101-108) are generally counted as four for facility of reference, while the five kinds of bandhana (Nos. 67-71), and the five energies of sanghâta (No. 72-76) which are really implied in the five kinds 16 aparyâpta(126).] www.jainelibrary.org * The tirthamkara prakriti is also formed in the presence of a kevali or sruta kevali. The kevali is an omniscient soul though not a Tirthamkara; and the sruta kevali is the all-knowing being whose comprehensive knowledge is derived from the Scripture, TCT

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