JIVITA-AHARA-AKASA.pptx

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Faculty of BuddhismInternational B.A Degree Programme

1stYear, 2ndSemester, 2012


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JvitindriyaThere is vitality both in

mind and in matter.Jvitarpa maintain all forms andprevents them from rotting and

breaking up. This causes human

beings to continue to live. It is caused

by a type of kamma which allows

beings to live and create further

kamma (merit or demerit).


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The word jvitacan be divided into

two: physical (rpajvita) andmental (nmajvita). Rpajvita isthe material quality of life and

nmajvita is the life faculty withmental concomitant(jvitindriyacetasika)


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The common expressions of ordinary

speech, "a being lives" or "a being dies"

are descriptive merely of the presence orabsence of this material quality of life.


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When it ceases forever with reference

to a particular form, we say "a being

dies" and we say "a being is living" so

long as it continues to act in any

particular form. This also locates itself

by permeating the whole body.


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Kabalkrohro- So called because gross foodis taken in by making into morsels. Here hrameans nutritive essence (oja) which sustains the

physical body.


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hrarpaorKabakrhraisthe food eaten,

but not yet

digested.

When it is

digestedand

nou-

rishes,

the parts of our

bodies,becoming

our flesh and

blood, it is

called the

vitality form

(ojarpa).


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In the statementsabbe satthrahitik, all beings live on food

hrameans a condition (paccaya).


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In the statementsabbesatt hrahitik, all

beings live on foodhra means a condition(paccaya).


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ksadhtu paricchedarpa nma- Limiting material quality theelement of space.

ksa is space, which in itself isnothingness. As such it is eternal.

ksa is a dhtu in the sense of a

non-entity (nijjva), not as an existingelement like the four Essentials.


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ksa


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Paricchedarpaor ksadhtuexistsbetween all forms preventing them

from getting stuck together. No matter

how big or small they are andwhatever shape they take, all forms

must be separated by ksadhtu. Ifthere were no ksarpa, all formswould be stuck together without anyshape, but with ksadhtu orparicchedarpa separating them,

they appear to have different shapes.


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ksadhtu means the element ofspace. In a heap of sand there is a

space between each particle of sand.

Hence we may say that there are as

many spaces as there are particles of

sand in the heap; and we can also

distinguish the particles of sand from

one another. When the heap isdestroyed the particles of sand are

scattered about, and the space

enclosed between them disappears

also.


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This is the material counterpart of

mental life faculty. It ischaracterized as life or vitality, and

maintains the co-existence kinds

of matter at the moment of theirpresence.


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This is the edible material infood which sustains the

physical body and allows it to

grow and survive.


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