!!Four Gati and 84 Yoni !!
As far as Jiva (Soul) is bound
by the Karmas, the birth and rebirth in this world continues unendingly. There are four
places where this Jiva (Soul) can find a birth. Naraki (Hellish), Tiryanch (Animal world), Manusya (Human),
and Dev (Gods). The process of going by a soul from one place to another is called “Gati”. Thus
there are these four Gati
Naraki (Hellish) :
There are seven Hells. The
hellish beings are many rather innumerable. Their life span is also longer. Thus, hell is
not just to show fear to people. It is a real place where one has to stay as a consequence of his sins and
bad deeds. Supposing a person very mercilessly kill thousands of people and animal, what is
his punishment. In legal terms, even if he gets a punishment one or thousands but the punishment
is just being hanged once only. But in hell, the punishment is very several and it is according to
and in proportion with the quantum of sins or bad deeds. There are 3 types of pains in hell;
(1)
Kshetra Vandana : - it is very hot place. Even a small molecule of that
hotness may burn us all. Such hottest place provide a lot of pains to hellish
beings.
(2)
The types of pains generated by constant mutual quarrels of the hellish.
(3)
The pains generated by the Parmadhami Gods to hellish beings they
specifically come to punish hellish beings, reminding of their sins often and often and giving
different kinds of several pains to them – to cut, to give hot, to beat and
more to come to their rescue, just get sufferings and great sufferings and greater,
still greater sufferings unendingly. There are only 3 ways to be prone to religious life:
i.
If any God visits the hells (No. one to three) and explain the essence of
religion to any
of their past relative.
ii.
Somebody gets the knowledge of his own past lives and thus become prone
to religion.
iii.
If those
extreme pain of the hell one himself thinks of one’s sinful past and become prone to religion
In all such
cases, after thinking their quota of hellish life, they take rebirth in Animal world or human world, but
never in Hellish or God Loka.
Tiryanch (Animal specie) :
There are several innumerable
number of Jivas in this specie also. This speice include all Sthavarkay, Vikalendriya (Those having
one or more senses less then normal), all five sensed animals etc. In this specie,
some Jivas are very huge, very bold, very strong Jivas, even humans are afraid of them. The five
sense animals have knowledge and intelligence but for want of description, they have been
categorised as ignorant. We have been observing their day-to-day miseries such as, Hunger,
thirst, Cold, Heat, carrying of more, weight, beatings, a lot of pains etc. but, the irony is that
in the name of scientific discoveries, Alokpanik (Inhuman) medicines preparations, eating of meat and manufacturing of
beauty products, crores of these animals species
have been undergoing the hellish kind of pains, for no fault of their own.
Besides they are taken to for
presentation of shows, circus and to zoos for just display them to general
public’s gesture. They are made to run in race, the bull-fight and
cock-fight shows are arranged for human
pleasure without knowing or appreciating what harassment they are undergoing
for our aimless hobbies Besides, they
are killed in hunting aimlessly, they are sacrificed in name of religion. The animal specie is a specie which is
mostly deployed among all the four species.
Manusya (Human) Specie :
To be born as human is considered
to be the best among all. Human specie birth is considered as a rare opportunity. The Jiva has been
more in hellish specie than in human specie and much more births he had in God
specie than the hellish one. One birth in human speice is given after innumberable
births, in hellish world. It is therefore to be well realised that now that you
have been given a human birth give up all other things and try to understand
your soul. This is a crucial time where in if you realize soul well and make it
free from Karmas by conscious efforts, one can be totally free from the cycle of births
and rebirths but if he continue to be in passions, greedy, pride, ignorance, wrong faith
etc. we will have hundreds and thousands of births and rebirths. In human specie also we have
been experiencing a number of pains, they are anxiety, worry old age, diseases, disorders – Lord
Tirthankara Adishwar had expressed his concern in these words “ Oh! Humans why you do not
understand? I have been explaining to you to worries and pains in all Yonis, but why
don’t you understand? Do you want to wonder in 84 Lakh Yonis again and
again? If you want to attain Moksha, this is the only human specie with you to strive for it. That
opportunity has come to you because you have been born in Karmabhoomi a land were one has to make
some efforts. This is a birth where you have better opportunity in Akarmabhoomi
there are only Yugliks the cannot make efforts to wipe off their Karmas.
They are dependent on the Kalpavriksha. Tree of heaven for their
livelihood.
The Samurchhima are in
most pitiable position. They take birth from urine and excreta. They are miserable. They have
senses but not sensitivity. The Yugliks offer death, if not liberated. Go to Dev Loka, but for humans,
if they don’t _____this opportunity they have to mate in all four Gati.
Dev Loka (God):
Gods have been shown of four
kinds (1) Bhavanpati, (2) Vyantar, (3) Jyotishk and (4) Vaimanik. Among Vaimaniks, there
are two types, Kalponna (12 Dev Loka) and Kalpatit (9 Graivyek and 5 Anuttana) Kalpa is
where their is some system Ten division and distinction between a master and a
servant etc. as per capacity and functions etc. (1) Indra, (2) Samanik,
(3) Tray Gransh, (4) Parishad, (5) Atma Rakshak (6) Lokpal,
(7) Anil, (8) Prakirnak, (9) Abhiyogik (10) Kilbishak. In Kalpatit Dev,
they have no division of master and servant, big and small etc. Bhavanpati and Vyantar Dev live in lower
World. Jyotishak Dev stays in Tirchha Loka and Vaimanik Stays in Higher Loka. Those who stays in higher land are superior to
those staying in lower land in terms
of Luster, Leshya, Life-span, knowledge of senses, knowledge of Avadhi, Happiness, power, strength etc. but their size of
body diminishes. If one completes one’s life span there, their rebirth is possible either in Animal or human specie.
Once came from Dev Loka cannot become
Dev again or Hellish also. In heaven there are number of sources of pleasure
and happiness, but they are not real
happiness. They also often have feelings of jealousy, quarrels, kidnapping of their Goddess, and all worries
associated with possession. Therefore all the four Gati including
Dev Loka are places of worries and miseries. A human should never think of
becoming God. Indeed, there is no happiness any where.
Hell
|
More Anger
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More Fear
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Animal
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More Passion
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More food’s worry
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Human
|
More Respect
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More passionate feelings
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God
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More Greed
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More Possession
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Yoni
Yoni is a place where the worldly
beings get the birth form. There are several such places of birth, but here one Yoni
refers to a common factor, where the colour, taste, touch, smell and place is common, it is one Yoni.
Thus identifying such common places of birth, 84 Lakh Yonis have been shown. One Yoni
means such places where the colour, taste, touch, smell etc are common and we have such 84
Lakh Yonis from different Jivas to take birth from.
Yoni could be good or evil. What
is a good Yoni?
(1)
The Yoni which gives birth to a Jiva who has much much longer span
of life.
(2)
The Yoni is which give birth to auspicious beings such as Lord Tirthankaras,
Chakravartis,
Vasudeva, Baldevs, etc,
(3)
The Yoni is which give birth to the Gods in heaven (except Kalbishi
and Paramadhami)
(4)
The Yoni is Animal world giving birth to Horse, Elephant, Cow etc.
(5)
The Yoni is which give birth to though one-sense being but to
items like flower and such other one-sense being.
The Yonis
other than discussed earlier are evil Yonis.
We have five sense, but what
we accomplish by one sense cannot be known is other sensed. We can see with our
eyes; but the ears do not know what we have seen. We feel with our touch but the tongue does not
know what we have touched. But the soul command all the sense, and as such
knows what function the senses are performing.
The miseries of haven have
been discussed here so that the soul understands such problems and thereby try to understand what is its
real role. Unfortunately the soul fials, to realize
the implied meaning of the situation. What he (how person) makes
misundertanding is to believe that
Body is the soul or Senses are the Soul or Breathing is the soul these are the
false
beliefs and they lead the
soul to births and rebirth in the four Gatis (Hell, Animals, Human ,God)
and 24 Dandaks.
Note : Above post is taken from JainUniversity
