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Samādhitantram
diameter equal to that of the human region (45,00,000 yojana long and as many broad). It is eight yojana thick in the middle and decreases towards the margins like that of a bowl kept upright. In the upper layer of rarefied air (tanuvātavalaya) of this Siddha kşetra reside the liberated pure souls, Siddhas, endowed with eight supreme qualities. The whole of the region below this abode of the pure souls is the region of transmigration, known as saņsāra, which is to be crossed with the aid of the Supreme Teacher.
Though there is no origination or destruction by external causes in the liberated soul, there is origination and destruction by internal causes. Internal causes are described thus by the authority of the Scripture: Each substance (dravya) has this attribute called the fagurulaghu-guņa'. Due to this attribute the substance undergoes six different steps of infinitesimal changes of rhythmic fall and rise (şaờhānivddhi). This wave-like process is a common and natural feature of all substances, found in the atom as well as in the mass. Origination and destruction are established by these changes.
Adapted from: Jain, Vijay K. (2016), “Ācārya Samantabhadra's Ratnakarandaka-śrāvakācāra", Vikalp Printers, p. 7-10.
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