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TRANSIT WITH AND WITHOUT BEND
movements. Again special movements are described. अविग्रहा जीवस्य
il 2011 Avigrahā jīvasya
(27) 27. The movement of a (liberated) soul is without a bend.
Vigrahā means hindered, bent, not straight. That motion in which there is no bend is avigrahā gali. To whom does it occur ? To a soul. To what kind of soul? To the liberated soul. How is the liberated soul implied here? It is inferred from the mention of transmigrating souls in the next sutra. By 'movement in rows' of the previous sutra, dres it not follow that there is no deviation from rows of space ? So this sutra is meaningless. No. This is to indicate that in the instances of the previous sutra there may be sometimes irregular movement also. Has not the rule regarding time and space been mentioned therein ? No. It is established only from this sutra.
The liberated soul is free from ties. Hence it goes up without impediment to the end of the universe. Is there obstruction in the case of the embodied soul, or is it as in the case of the liberated soul ?
fargent fenfu: greaqnt: IRC II Vigrahavali ca saṁsārinaḥ prākcaturbhyaḥ (28) 28. The movement of the transmigrating souls is with bend also prior to the fourth instant.
Prior to the fourth is intended to indicate the limit of time. The word 'prior' indicates the limit. Movement with a bend occurs up to three instants but not in the fourth. How is it? The being, who is to be born in the special place outside the mobile channel (Nişkuta Kşetra') for the sake of the body
1 Niskuta ksetra is located in the topmost corner of the universe outside the mobile channel (trasa nadi). Living beings endowed with more than one sense are found only within the boundaries of the mobile channel and not outside it. Hence it is called the mobile channel (trasa nädī). But one-sensed creatures are found within as well as outside the mobile channel.
The mobile channel is the region, which runs through the centre of the universe. It is in the form of a prism having a square base, cach side measuring one rajju, extending throughout the universe of fourteen rajjus in boight.
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