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CHAPTER TWO
tendency to renounce pain and to attain pleasure-these two respectively are the signs of a manifestation of the karma type trasa-nāma and of that of the karma type sthāvara-nāma.
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Question The fire-bodied and the air-bodied souls-are they too-just like the two-sensed souls and the others-seen to make a clear-cut exhibition of the tendency in question, so that it might be proper to place the former too under the type mobile ? Answer: No, they are not..
Question: Why then are they not placed under the type static, just like the earth-bodied souls and the others?
Answer: So far as the present definition is concerned they are in fact static. However, keeping in view the similarity in respect of motion that they exhibit with the two-sensed souls and the others they have been placed under the type mobile. That is to say, the trasa or mobile souls are of two varieties-viz. labdhitrasa or full-fleged trasa and gati-trasa or trasa in respect of motion. The souls characterized by a manifestation of the karmatype trasa-nāma are labdhi-trasa and it is they alone who are trasa in a true sense of the term; such are the souls possessing two to five sense organs. On the other hand, the souls which though characterized by a manifestation of the karma-type designated sthāvaranāma are called trasa on account of their trasa-like motion or gati-trasa. Those are trasa in a figurative sense of the term; such are the fire-bodied and air-bodied souls. 13, 14.
The number of indriyas or operative organs, their types and subtypes, and their names :
The indriyas are five in number. 15.
Each of them is of two types. 16.
The type dravyendriya is of the form of nirvṛtti and of the form of upakarana. 17.
The type bhāvendriya is of the form of labdhi and of the form of upayoga. 18.
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