Illuminator of Jaina Tenets

SR No.: 006924
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1985
Total Pages: 252
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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Illuminator of Jaina Tenets
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tion', 'fluidity in the absence of injury by any weapon', 'nourishment on account of food' and 'unrestricted horizontal motion which is not effected from outside' and 'the perception of withering on account of being pierced (by weapon)'.
Their animate nature can be proved also by the testimony of the omniscient. Thus runs the scripture
"Are the earth-bodied beings and the like, O Lord, possessed of determinate consciousness or indeterminate consciousness !" "They are, O Gotama, possessed of determinate consciousness as well as indeterminate consciousness."2
(Note) The attribute of locomotion is of two kinds-(i) spontaneous and undeliberate, and (ii) deliberate and voluntary. The former is a purely physical motion and is present in fire-bodied and air-bodied living beings though they are possessed of one sense only. The latter is possible only in beings which are possessed of two or more senses and is due to the acquisition of independent capacity for such. It should be observed that this differentiation of souls as immobile and mobile holds good in the case of souls in bondage and has no relevancy so far as the emancipated souls are concerned. &. RETTETSHTETET I
समनस्कादीर्घकालिकविचारणात्मिकया संज्ञया युक्ताः संज्ञिन इति । असंशिनोऽमनस्काः । samanaskā'manaskaś ca.
samanaskādīrghakālikavicāraṇātmikayā samjñayā yuktāḥ samjñina
iti.
asamjñino’manaskāḥ.
(Aph.) Souls are again classifiable under two heads viz. (i) endowed with mind and (ii) unendowed with mind. (VI)
(Gloss) 'Endowed with mind' means equipped with samjñā, that is, possessed of saṁjñā which is of the nature of thought relating to the past, present and future. (The souls which are) devoid of saṁjñā are without mind. ('Endowed with mind' means equipped with capacity 1 Cf. “Not only do living things feed and grow; they also reproduce almost exact copies of themselves. To do this, they must pass on information which can be used to direct the building of the copies; this is the process of genetical inheritance, the information being contained and passed on in a genetic code. The copies will be built from materials in the environment that are absorbed and reformed into the materials of the living body"-Mind Alive, Vol. I, p. 22. Ratnayanā, pada XXIX.