[Manish Jain]

Gommatsāra Karnakand Gatha-3
गोम्मटसार कर्मकाण्ड गाथा -3

Gommatsāra is one of the most important Jain texts authored by Acharya Nemichandra Siddhanta Chakravarti.

देहोदयेण सहिओ, जीवो आहरदि कम्म णोकम्मं ।
पडिसमयं सव्‍वंगं, तत्तायसपिंडओव्‍व जलं ॥३॥

By the operation of the body sub-class of body­-making Karma the soul attracts Karmic and quasi-Karmic (physical molecules) every instant to the whole body as a hot iron ball (draws in) water (from all sides).

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[SaloniSharma]

Hello sir, what is this Gatha about?

[Manish Jain]

Hello sir, what is this Gatha about?

      The soul united with the body, is constantly taking in material molecules to renew and build its Karmic and two other bodies. Kar¬mic molecules build up the Karmic body; and the physical molecules build up the other physical bodies. 
In all there are 5 possible bodies of a mundane soul 
(1) Audarika, the external physical body, 
(2) Vaikriyika, fluid body of the celestial and hellish beings, 
(3) Aharaka, the assimilative body in which a saint’s soul flashes to an omniscient to resolve some doubt, 
(4) Taijasa, electric body, 
(5) Karmana, Karmic body. These are all material. 

The molecules of which they are formed are of 2 kinds. 
(1) Karma-vargana of which the Karmic body is made.
(2) No-karma-vargana, of which the other bodies are made. The no-karma vargana is of 2 kinds” Taijasa vargana, of which the electric body is formed; and the Aharaka vargana, of which the externa1 physical, fluid and Aharaka bodies are made. Every embodied soul has at least 3 bodies, the Karmic, the electric and either the fluild or the external physical body. Sometimes it has 4, for one antar-muhurta, when the Aharaka body emanates from a saint in doubt. And in transmigration, i. e., its passage from one to an¬other condition of existence, the soul has only 2 bodies - i. e., the Karmic and the electric.

All these bodies are in form like the external body occupied by the soul; they are all co-extensive. Except that the Aharaka body is human in form but in size of a length equal to the forearm of the saint himself, i. e., from the elbow to the tip of his middle finger.

The fluid body also, although it is changeable at will. is yet one to begin with, and its identity persists throughout life.