The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c8.113

c8.113

§ 71. The spiritual function, *uvaoga*, is the essence of the soul, though acc. to T. 2,18 *upayoga* also specifically means the functioning of the senses likewise underlying spiritual imagination. Along with the *labdhi*, the faculty of practising, the *upayoga* represents the sense considered as condition (*bhāvendriya*). Pannay. 308b f. says *laddhi* and *uvaog’addhā* the latter meaning the time during which a sense (to be added: when conceiving) is active. The quickest to react is vision followed by hearing, smell, taste and feeling. Between its quickest and its slowest possible activity there lie the slowest performances of the same row. Both for the *davv’indiya* (§ 67) and for the *bhāv’indiya* the Pannay. (311b-315b) elaborately demonstrates how many of each kind were, are and will be existing (*atita, baddhellaga* and *purekkhada*) in the beings during their past, their present and their future. The number of the latter depends on the number of existences still to follow the present one until salvation takes place.