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SANNYASA DHARMA
plants. Some even sink back into what is known as nigoda, which is alınost like an unending eternal stupor.
The bāla.bala death will also lead to a human birth where some sort of active goodness is present to modify the effect of evil and vicious ignorance.
The form of the future rebirth is usually fixed about the time that a third of the life-force (the force of longevity) remains to be gone through in any particular form. If it is not fixed then, it will be fixed when a third of that third remains to be gone through, and again, if not determined even then, when a third of the remainder is left to live, and in any case at the moment of death. But what is fixed in this manner is the general type of the gati (one of the four main types of embodied existence, namely, human, celestial, sub.human and hellish). The actual form and other attendant circumstances would seem to depend on the nature of the thoughts and feelings actually prevailing in the mind at the moment of death, so that where these are characterized by tranquillity, self-knowledge, and veneration for the Tirthamkaras, Liberated Ones, Saints and Scripture, the conditions of rebirth will be of the most auspicious and the least undesirable type; and vice versa. It would thus seem that the two psychical or psychological factors which play the greatest part in the determination of the nature of the future re-incarnation are character and feeling, the former determining the gati, and the latter, the actual grade of being in the particular gati. The sādhu, therefore, does not suffer death to come to him un.
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