Uttarajjhayana 211.22.p1.58_3

211.22.p1.58_3

bārasahiṃ joyaṇehiṃ | savvaṭhassuvariṃ bhave /
īsipabbhāranāmā | puḍhavī chattasaṃṭhiyā ||58||

This place, by nature pure, consisting of white gold, resembles in form an open umbrella, as has been said by the best of Ginas. (61)
(Above it) is a pure blessed place (called Sîtâ), which is white like a conch-shell, the aṅka-stone, and Kunda-flowers; a Yôgana thence is the end of the world. (62)
The perfected souls penetrate the sixth part of the uppermost Krôsa of the (above-mentioned) Yôgana. (63)
There at the top of the world reside the blessed perfected souls, rid of all transmigration, and arrived at the excellent state of perfection. (64)
The dimension of a perfected soul is two-thirds of the height which the individual had in his last existence. (65)
The perfected souls, considered singly, (as individuals) have a beginning but no end; considered collectively (as a class) they have neither a beginning nor an end. (66)
They have no (visible) form, they consist of Life throughout, they are developed into knowledge and, faith, and they possess paramount happiness which admits of no comparison. (67)
They all dwell in one part of the world, and have developed into knowledge and faith, they have crossed the boundary of the Samsâra, and reached the excellent state of perfection. (68)
(2) Living beings which still belong to the Samsâra, are of two kinds: a. movable, and b. immovable ones: the immovable ones are of three kinds: (69)
α. Earth Lives, β. Water Lives, and γ. plants; these are the three kinds of immovable living beings; now learn from me their subdivision. (70)