Practical Dharma

SR No.: 011122
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Indian Press
Publication Year: 1929
Total Pages: 123
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 8 MB

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THE PRACTICAL DHARMA
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(iii) lower forms of life belonging to the animal, vegetable and
mineral kingdoms, and (iv) denizens of hells.
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VI. The nāma karma group comprises the following ninety-three kinds of energies, falling under forty-two heads, which are responsible for the formation of the different kinds of bodies and their organs :
(1) Gati, or condition of existence, which is of four kinds, namely,
(i) manuşya (human), (ii) tiryancha (lower forms of life, such as animals, vegetables
and the like), 51 (iii) deva (life in heavens), and 52 (iv) naraka (the condition of existence as a resident of hell).
(2) Jāti, that is, type, or class, which comprises the following five heads :53
(i) one-sensed beings,
(ii) two-sensed beings, 55
(iii) three-sensed beings, 56
(iv) four-sensed beings, and
(v) beings with all the five senses. (3) Sarira, i.e., body, which is of five kinds, viz.,
(i) audārika, the outer body of gross matter, 59
(ii) vaiksiyaka, the outer body of devas (residents of heavens) and
of those who are the denizens of hells, (iii) ahāraka, an invisible body of small dimensions, which issues
from the forehead of advanced ascetics alone, and enables
them to visit the Teacher, if there be one in a distant land,
(iv) taijasa, the body of luminous matter, and 62
(v) kärmāņa, the body of karmic energies.
(4) Angopānga, that is, the principal and subsidiary limbs, which are of three kinds
(i) audārika, i.e., pertaining to the physical body,
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