Practical Path

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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43 (2) Jâti, that is, type, or class, which comprises the following five beads :--
(i) one-sensed beings, (ii) two-sensed beings, (iii) three-sensed beings, (iv) four-sensed beings, and
56 (v) beings with all the five senses.
57 (3) Sharira, i.e., body, which is of five kinds, viz., -
(i) audôrika, the outer body of gross matter, 58 (ii) vaikriyaka, the outer body of devas (residents 59
of heavens) and of those who are the denizens
of hells, (iii) ahāraka, an invisible body of small dimen- 80
sions, which issues from the forehead of advanced ascetics alone, and enables them to visit the Teacher, if there be one in a distant
land,
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(iv) tai jasa, the body of luminous matter, and
(v) kârmana, the body of karmic energies.
(4) Angopânga, that is, the principal and subsidiary limbs, which are of three kinds
(i) audârika, i.e., pertaining to the physical body, (ii) vaikriyaka, pertaining to the vaikriyaka saréra
which can become big or small, and can : assume any form at will, and .... (iii) aháraka, i.e., pertaining to the ahâraka
body. (5) Nirmâna, that is, symmetry.
(6) Bandhana, or union of particles without which it would be impossible for the body to be organised.
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