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KINDS OF BIRTH :
operate, the soul is anāhāraka. But the taking in of karmas is incessant, as there is the karmic body. In straight movement towards the seat of birth, the soul takes in matter. In the other three instants the soul does not assimilate matter.
The kinds of accomplishment of the new body for the soul in transit and the ways of birth are described. सम्मूर्छनगर्भोपपादाज्जन्म
! 38 11 Sammūrcchanagarbhopapādājjanma (31) 31. Birth is by spontaneous generation, from the uterus or in the special bed.
In the three worlds, the upper, the lower and the middle, there is spontaneous generation of the body in all directions, that is formation of limbs by the surrounding matter. The union of male and female energy in the woman's womb is the uterus. (The union of a sperm and an ovum forming a fertilized ovum constitutes uterine birth.) Or it is called the womb because of the mixing of the food taken by the mother. Upapāda is the seat to which the soul goes and in which it is born. It is the particular name of the seat of birth of celestial and infernal beings. These are the three ways in which the transmigrating souls are born on the ripening of diverse karmas.
So far, the section on births has been dealt with. The births are the basis for the attainment of enjoyment of things of this world. Now the kinds of birth-places or nuclei must be described.
सचित्तशीतसंवृताः सेतरा मिश्राश्चैकशस्तद्योनयः ॥३२॥ Sacittaśītasaṁvrtāḥ setarā miśrāścai kasastadyonayaḥ (32) 32. Living matter, cold, covered, their opposites and their combinations are the nuclei severally.
Cittam is the quality of consciousness of the soul. That which is associated with consciousness is sacitta, that is living matter, Sita is cold. Like white it denotes both substance and quality. Hence cold denotes a cold object also. Samurla is that which is covered well. That which cannot be seen is called covered or hidden. Setarā are the opposites. What are
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