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This table provides a brief description of different types of bodies co-existing with the soul as per the Jain text of Tattvarthasutra.
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| Author | Anish Shah |
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Sarira or different types of bodies (Tattvárthasütra) |
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Types of Bodies |
Meaning |
Description |
Features |
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Subtleness |
Purpose (Upabhoga) |
Association with the soul |
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AudSrlka |
Gross body |
Visible buRy body made from suitable class of material clusters |
Possesses cognitive organs and other bodiy parts |
Humans, animats or plant forms |
Gross. Subject to resistance while moving |
To experience pleasure and pain, to perform actions, to suffer or enjoy consequences of the prcvsoos karmas |
From birth to death when soul takes birth in human or animal form Emerges at the time of txrth out of womb or txrth by way of aggMmation |
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Vaikriyaka |
Protean' transformable body |
Body that can assumo supernatural forms in various sizes and shapes |
Possesses cognitive organs and other bod iy parts |
AS heavenly beings, infernal be¡ngs and in very rare cases some exceptional human beings |
Subtler than audSnka Subject to partial resistance on movement Tneysulfer no resistance only in a pait of loka catod trosanMi |
Similar to uudSriko. but also used to assume various forms, shapes and sizes. |
From birth to death when soul takes birth m heevens or hess II this case it created by sudden manifestation on birth of heavenly and heüish beings It can also be created artificially by supernatural powers acquired by humans in form of penances and sometimes available to some humans since birth |
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AhSreka |
Commuting body |
Made up of auspicious clusters of meteríais which are white and pure. |
Possesses cognitive organs and other bodJy parts |
Monks in sixth stage of gunaslMna (spiritual development) and versed in the wpOrvas |
Subtler than votknyako. Subject to partial resistance on nwemcnt They suffer no resistance only in a part of loka (unwrse) caBod trosonodi |
When a monk harbours a doubt and there is no omniscient being in hts world he creates an ShSraka body that allows him to travel to a different world tiaving an omniscient being and get his doubts resoVed It is done within a perkxl of -18 minutes. |
Temporarily and artificialy created by a monk for the specific purpose of travoiing to other worlds to moot the omniscient bemgs in order to answer certain questions. |
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Teijasa |
Fiery or body made oí energy |
Made up of fiery particles |
Devoid of cognitive organs and other bodiy parts |
A! wortcTy living beings |
Subtler than Шгока Suffers no resistance. Can mow throughout the loka |
Helps in digestion of consumed food and gr.«s a glow. It also provides energy for other bodtfs to function in case of ascetics with supernatural powers due to penances, teijasa body can be used to burn down the person with whom they are angry and to shower calm on the person with wtiom they are pteased |
Associated with soul since begmningfess time and also present at Iho Un» of transmigration |
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Kérmana |
Karmic body |
Cofloction of karmas attached to the soul |
Devoid of cognitwi organs and other bodiy parts |
A3 worldly living bemgs |
Most suWJo. Suffers no resistance Can move throughout the loka |
The кйгтапз body is categonsed as mwpabboga as it is not an enabler in any activity or purposo of a living bomg The karmic body is the field that holds al the karmic particles of the soul It is the basts for ai other bodies |
Associated with soul since begmnmgsess time and also present at the time of transmigration. |
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