I thought to start new year 2016 on a auspicious note. I went to meet Gurudeo on 01/01/2016 and participated in questions and answers session. One devotee asked Gurudeo--" Sir, please explain Jainism theory related to how a soul takes birth after completion of current life and what are the phases to achieve salvation for any soul ".
Gurudeo said " you seek answer for two questions. Both of them are very vast, so I will cover only birth part today and discuss the phases portion later on. Since the answer is too vast, I can refer here it in a summary form with relevant reference for further study by you later.
For birth keep the image of three circles in mind as a continuous process till a soul gets salvation to understand the complete process.
First arrow is last birth, second one is current one and last one is the next birth. Life of current birth was built in last life so as for next life you will be building it in current life and so on unless you cut off the Karman body. Karman body is one's earned Karmas good or bad.
Accumulated balance of both Karman body and Tejas body are being transferred to the soul while taking new birth. It is not being carried forward when soul gets salvation finally due to zero balance.
Science believe that male and female sperm combination causes birth of a baby where as Jainism believe that it only provide food to soul to build body and organs. That is the reason why some part of body, deceases may resemble either of parent. However individual nature depends upon individual quality of soul. A soul after expiry or completing his specified term in particular body leaves that body by what we call as death .Fixed life getting exhausted every second.
Immediately after death soul enters the womb of a lady matching it's Leshya ( sentiments, quality of soul ) from his fixed one out of 4 Gati
category of living soul. It stays there for a specified period more than nine months then enters the world to complete his new term as per life built in last birth. The soul enters with maximum ten " Pran". For birth in heaven or hell there is no mother. The birth spot for them is called as "Kumbhi" for hell and is "Devshaya" for Devta of Devloga.
Second important point is to know the process of fixing nature of death. Usually lives in hell and heaven have fixed term life called as Niruprakaman life ( death without any external cause ) while all .
others can have Soprakaman ( death with a cause ) or a mixed type.
First category fix the next life before six months of current life term expiry. While second category builds it any time between when 1/3 of (1 to 729 the portion of 1/3) current life balance is remaining. This process happens unknowingly called -(Anabhognivatiyauya).
It generally happens on Bhadrapad Shukla Panchmi, when Jain celebrates Sawastari. Hence it is a important day of life for all Jain.
The process is completed in 1 to 8 attempts called as Aakarsha. In this process the soul builds six feature of next life. They are namely
Any one of Jaati ( Ekendriya to Panchedriya ),Gati ( hell,plants or animal,human ,heaven ) period, shape (Avagahana), Pradesh (happy and sad moments) and Anubhag ( severity of such sufferings or happiness during this particular life term ).The whole process of
next life fixation takes less than 48 minutes ( Antramuhurta ).
One can refer Pradyanapana Sutra ( 17/06,06) and Bhagwati Sutra (01/07,07/06.05/03 ) for detailed study. It can add to understanding.
Be careful for your deeds and be engaged in good deeds because any time next life can be built at any unknown time "Gurudeo concluded.
No doubt the lecture was difficult to understand but it removed many doubts, we thanked Gurudeo and left the venue. I asked one regular fellow devotee to pass on notes to me for second part for next blog.
JAI JINENDRA----------!!!------- JAI MAHAVEER--------------!!!.
Gurudeo said " you seek answer for two questions. Both of them are very vast, so I will cover only birth part today and discuss the phases portion later on. Since the answer is too vast, I can refer here it in a summary form with relevant reference for further study by you later.
For birth keep the image of three circles in mind as a continuous process till a soul gets salvation to understand the complete process.
Accumulated balance of both Karman body and Tejas body are being transferred to the soul while taking new birth. It is not being carried forward when soul gets salvation finally due to zero balance.
Immediately after death soul enters the womb of a lady matching it's Leshya ( sentiments, quality of soul ) from his fixed one out of 4 Gati
category of living soul. It stays there for a specified period more than nine months then enters the world to complete his new term as per life built in last birth. The soul enters with maximum ten " Pran". For birth in heaven or hell there is no mother. The birth spot for them is called as "Kumbhi" for hell and is "Devshaya" for Devta of Devloga.
(essentials to live life known as "Pran" depicted in following image
others can have Soprakaman ( death with a cause ) or a mixed type.
First category fix the next life before six months of current life term expiry. While second category builds it any time between when 1/3 of (1 to 729 the portion of 1/3) current life balance is remaining. This process happens unknowingly called -(Anabhognivatiyauya).
It generally happens on Bhadrapad Shukla Panchmi, when Jain celebrates Sawastari. Hence it is a important day of life for all Jain.
The process is completed in 1 to 8 attempts called as Aakarsha. In this process the soul builds six feature of next life. They are namely
Any one of Jaati ( Ekendriya to Panchedriya ),Gati ( hell,plants or animal,human ,heaven ) period, shape (Avagahana), Pradesh (happy and sad moments) and Anubhag ( severity of such sufferings or happiness during this particular life term ).The whole process of
next life fixation takes less than 48 minutes ( Antramuhurta ).
One can refer Pradyanapana Sutra ( 17/06,06) and Bhagwati Sutra (01/07,07/06.05/03 ) for detailed study. It can add to understanding.
No doubt the lecture was difficult to understand but it removed many doubts, we thanked Gurudeo and left the venue. I asked one regular fellow devotee to pass on notes to me for second part for next blog.
JAI JINENDRA----------!!!------- JAI MAHAVEER--------------!!!.
