Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 3

SR No.: 001003
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1949
Total Pages: 441
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Mythology, & Story
File Size: 10 MB

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CHAPTER FIVE Sermon on the kaşāyas (219–348) "Emancipation (mokşa) is the chief of the four objects of existence and the source of it is self-concentration (yoga), and it (yoga) is the three jewels having the form of jñāna, śraddhāna, and caritra. Understanding in accordance with the Principles is jñāna; right-belief is samyakśraddhā; and abandonment of all censurable activities is caritra. The Soul alonenor rather, the right-belief, knowledge, and conduct of a yati, since it (the soul) really consists of themrules the body. If anyone knows the soul in himself by himself because of the freedom from delusion, that itself is his right-conduct, -knowledge, and -belief. The pain arising from the ignorance of soul is destroyed by knowledge of the soul; it can not be destroyed by penance even by persons lacking in comprehension of the soul. This very soul, consisting of pure thought, has a body from union with karma, but may become perfect soul, spotless, having its karma consumed by the fire of meditation. This same soul, overcome by passions and the senses is saṁsāra (worldly existence); and wise men call the very same, when it overcomes the passions and senses, mokṣa (emancipation).
Creatures' passions are four-fold: anger (krodha), conceit (māna), deceit (māyā), and greed (lobha); and each of them is divided into sañjvalana, et cetera,201 Sañjvalana (perfect conduct-preventing) lasts for two weeks; pratyākhyāna (total vow-preventing) lasts for four months; apratyākhyāna (partial vow-preventing) for a year; and anantānubandhaka (eternal) for a birth.202 They are destructive of freedom from passions, of being an ascetic, of being a layman, and of right-belief, respectively. They produce births as gods, humans, animals, and hellinhabitants, respectively..
201 226. See I, p. 403.
202 227. 1.e., if it is already manifest. The anantānubandhakaşāyas that are in existence, but not yet manifested, pass on in a succession of births. Hence the name,