Originally since eternity
Jiva is found bonded in
Nitya-Nigoda* form of body. There, the
Jiva occupying Nitya (eternal)
Nigoda form of body dies on completion of
Ayu-karma and again acquires
Nitya (eternal)
Nigoda form of body only and then again dies after the expiry ofAyu
karma and again acquires
Nitya Nigoda body only. In this way, there are infinite times infinite
Jivas which are continuously dying and taking birth from eternity there only. Further, from
(Nitya Nigoda) state 608
Jivas get out in six months and eight
Samayas. They assume other forms of bodies after getting out from there. They continue transmigration in earth, water, fire, air and single plant-life forms of one-sensed beings, in the forms of two-sensed, three-sensed and four-sensed beings or in infernal, animal, human and celestial forms of five-sensed beings. After undergoing transmigration for a long time if
Jiva again attains the
Nigoda form of existence then it is termed as
Itara (non-eternal)
Nigoda.
And after having stayed there for long time and getting out from there,
Jivas continue transmigration in other forms of existence. There, the maximum period of transmigration in earth, etc., immobile forms of beings
(Sthavara Jivas) is innumerable
Kalpas only and in mobile forms of two to five sensed beings
(Trasa-Jivas) it is somewhat more than two thousand
Sagaras. In
Itara Nigoda it is two and a half
Pudgal-Paravartanas (wandering in matter-cycle of time) which is infinite period.
Some Jivas after getting out of ltara-
Nigoda and getting
Sthavara (immobile) form of existence again go back to
Nigoda.
Thus, in one-sensed forms of existence the maximum period of transmigration is innumerable
Pudgal-Paravartanas only and the minimum period is of one
Antar-Muhurta in all states of existence.
In this way, the maximum embodied forms occupied (by this Jiva) are of one-sensed beings only and acquiring other (higher) forms of existence is just like Kaktaliya Nyaya - a flying crow catching falling down fruit by chance.
Thus, this
Jiva is having the disease of
karmic bondage from beginningless time. Thus ends the diagnosis of
karmic bondage.
*Nigoda: The subtle one-sensed undeveloped form of Jiva where birth-death ocours 18 times in one respiration period.