Sthaviravali

Author(s): Ratnaprabhvijay
Publisher: Jain Granth Prakashak Sabha

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the most powerful sovereigns in this world. Their abodes and dwelling-places are made of gold beset with jewels. Their divine powers can never be compared with the meagre power of any human being. The acquisition of such divine power and splendour is the birth-right of celestial beings. They obtain them without making any effort.
Even among human beings, if a Yogi or an ascetic is met with, possessing the extraordinary ability of accomplishing an object or of obtaining an article without trouble or effort, having supreme knowledge beyond ordinary human power, people become astonished and perplexed.
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Such a natural acquisition obtained as a birth-right during human existence is technically called a fer Labdhi.
fs Labdhi is the attainment of the manifestation of the sense-faculty, by the partial destruction, subsidence and operation of the knowledge-obscuring karma relating to that sense.
These Labdhis are attainable only by ascetics possessing knowledge of the fourteen Purvas or by very attentive yogis and they are obtained by high and ever-increasing higher virtuous natural developments.
The far Labdhis are numerous but the twenty-eight mentioned in Jaina a Agamas, Scriptures are the principal ones. They are:
आमोसहि १ विप्पोसहि२ खेलोसहि३ जल्लओसहि४ चेव । सव्वोसहि५ संभिन्ने प्रोही७ रिउ ८ विउलमइलडी ६ ॥ १ ॥ चारण१० आसीविस ११ केवलिय१२ गणहारिणो य१३ पुव्वधरा १४ अरहंत१५ चक्कवही १६ बलदेवा १७ वासुदेवाय १८ ॥ २ ॥
खीरमहुसप्पिआसव १६ कोठ्ठयबुद्धि २० पयाणुसारी य २१ । • तह बीयबुद्धि२२ तेयग२३ आहारग२४ सीयलेसा य २५ ॥ ३ ॥