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Food, Respiration, and Lesyas of Celestial Beings.
A living being formed by the union of the semen of the male with the blood of the female, gets its food-supply from the uterine blood-vessels of the mother. When a soul goes from one condition of existence to another, it assimilates the molecules of Ahāraka matter, and also speech-matter in the case of more than one-sensed, and of mind-matter in the case of rational beings.
The āhāraka molecules form the physical body of human and sub-human beings, the Vaikriyaka (transformable) body of celestial and hellish beings, and the Ahāraka, Assimilative body in case of saints with supernatural powers. These molecules are reduced to a primary solid and liquid form. The completion of the capacity to do it, is the 1 ang qaffa Āhāraka Paryāpti, Assimilative Development. The solid portions develop into bone etc, hard substances, and the liquid into blood, bile etc, the fluid substances of the body.
The completion of the capacity to do it, is the 2. arte quifa Sartra Paryapti, Body Development. The molecular matter assimilated by the soul is further formed into sense-organs; the completion of the capacity to do it, is the 3 fuquffa, Indriya Paryapti, Sense Development. The wear and tear of the body is made up by ceaseless respiration. The completion of the capacity to do it, is 4. श्वासोश्वासपर्याप्ति Svasośvāsa Paryapati or आणपाण
affa, Āṇa-pāņa Paryapti, Respiratory Development. The completion of the capacity to form speech-molecules and mind-molecules into speech and mind is respectively the 5. aaaquffa Vacana Paryapti, Speech Development, and 6. ffa Manah Paryapti
Mind Development.
The beginning of the acquiring of 4, 5, or 6 capacities is simultaneous; but their completion is in the order in which they are named. From the first kind, each successive development takes more time to complete itself than its predecessor.
Each one individually and all the six collectively, never take
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