Reality English Translation of Sarvarthasiddhi

Author(s): S A Jain
Publisher: Jwalamalini Trust Chennai

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DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE TWO TYPES OF TELEPATHY 35
maximum of seven or eight past or future births. It can extend in space from one krośa (two miles) up to one yojana (eight miles) but not beyond it. The latter (vi pulamati) can extend from seven or eight births up to innumerable births in the past and in the future. In space it can extend from one yojana up to the entire abode of human beings (i. e. up to the mountain range of Mānușattara) and not beyond that limit. Other particulars regarding these are described next.
विशुद्धयप्रतिपाताभ्यां तद्विशेषः Il 28.11
Visuddhyapratipatabhyaa taduisesah (24) 24. The differences between the two are due to purity and infallibility.
The state of the soul on the destruction-cum-subsidence of the karmic veil covering telepathy is purity. Pratipatanam is fall (prati pāta). No prati pāta is a prati päta. Aprati pāta is absence of fall. An ascetic, whose karmic veil has only subsided but has not been completely removed, sometimes falls from his spiritual height in the presence of powerful conductdeluding karmas. But such a fall does not occur in the case of an ascetic whose conduct-deluding karmas have been completely destroyed. And the excellence of telepathy depends upon purity and absence of fall. First with regard to purity. Vipulamati is purer than rjumati with regard to the object (subject matter), space, time and nature or condition. How?
The infinitesimali part of karmic matter ascertained by perfect clairvoyance is the province of rjumuti. And the infinitesimal part of what is known to jumati is within the reach of vipulamati. Thus the latter knows the infinitesimal part of infinitesimal. Its purity with regard to object, space and time has been mentioned. Its purity with regard to nature or condition must also be understood from the more subtle or minute forms of matter that come within its range, as it is accompanied by purity resulting from greater destruction-cumsubsidence of karmas. It is also superior owing to the absence of fall or deterioration, as its possessor belongs to the ascend
1 This term is used in the sense of one / infinite.