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Reals in the Jaina Metaphysics The Taijasa Body is said to be characterised by the brilliant whiteness like that of a conch.
_ 'शंखधवलप्रभालक्षणं तैजसम्।' It is this internal Body which gives lustre to the grosser external Bodies, the Audārika, the Vaikriyika and the Ahāraka.
'औदारिक क्रियाहारकदेहाभ्यन्तरस्य देहस्य दीप्ति हेतुः।' It is said that there may be occasions when this Taijasa Body in a sage may come out of his gross Body and then return to it. A sage practising extreme penances may for some reason be at the highest pitch of anger when the brilliant Taijasa Body may suddenly shoot forth from his Body and burn down the object of his anger. On the other hand, a sage may feel extreme pity on which occasion again, his Taijasa Body may similarly come out and do some good act. In the former case, the Taijasa is called the Asubha or harmful and in the latter, the Subha or beneficial.
TAIJASA BODY WITH THE JAINA'S AND WITH THE VEDIC SCHOOL
The Taijasa Body of the Jaina’s which thus goes out of the animal's gross body upon its death and stays within it during its life time giving lustre to it, is apparently, similar to the Sūkşma or the subtle Body, otherwise called the Linga Sarīra which according to the Vedic school is undestroyed and goes out upon the death of the animal. In 103, of the Para-paksa-nirjayādhyāya, the author of the Sāmkhya Sūtra's, refers to such subtle Body which he calls Ātivāhika as distinguished from the gross or Sthūla Body. This Sūkşma Body is also called the Taijasa because the Sruti or the Scripture has stated that the substance in which, at the time of an animal's death, all its physical and vital principles with their functions lose themselves is: Tejas.
'TMETIST What thus persists after the animal's death over and above
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