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NUMBER OF AFFLICTIONS IN DIFFERENT STAGES
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सूक्ष्मसाम्परायच्छमस्थवीतरागयोश्चतुर्दश ॥ १० ॥ Sūkşmasāmparāyacchadmasthavitarāgayoścaturdaśa (10) 10. Fourteen afflictions occur in the case of the saints in the tenth and twelfth stages.
The fourteen afflictions are hunger, thirst, cold, heat, insectbite, movement, uncomfortable bedding, injury, lack of gain, illness, pricking pain, dirt, learning and ignorance. The mention of 'fourteen' implies that the other afflictions do not occur in these stages. An objection is raised. As there is no deluding karma in the twelfth stage, the eight afflictions originating from it are absent, and hence the rule limiting the afflictions to fourteen in their case is appropriate. But there is the rise of the deluding karmas in the tenth stage. Hence the number fourteen is not appropriate to the saint of the tenth stage. Such an objection is not valid, as it is merely the presence of the deluding karmas. In that stage there is merely the rise of the gleaming passion of greed, and that too is very minute. So the limit fourteen is appropriate to the tenth stage also, as it is similar to that of the twelfth stage. It is further argued that the afflictions such as hunger do not arise, as the rise of deluding karmas is either absent or very slight. Hence it is not fit to speak of the conquest of such afflictions. But it is not so. What is the reason? The potentiality alone is referred to here, similar to the capacity of the highest kind of devas (Sarvārthasiddhi devas) to reach the seventh infernal region."
If afflictions occur to the embodied saint, how many do arise in the case. of the Omniscient Jina, who still experiences the effects of four karmas?
एकादश जिने Ekādaśa jine
(11) 11. Eleven afflictions occur to the Omniscient Jina.
Though the four destructive karmas have been destroyed by the Lord Jina, eleven afflictions arising from the presence of feeling karmas occur to Him (the Omniscient or in the Jivan Mukta stage). It is argued that it is not proper to speak of afflictions
1 But they never go there, as there is no inclination, curiosity or need for them to do so.
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