Jaina Philosophy

SR No.: 001180
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mohanlal Mehta
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 328
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Philosophy
File Size: 15 MB

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other karmas. He experiences still three or four births before he attains liberation. If he reaches the series without having bound ayus, he proceeds immediately to the destruction of the still remaining conduct-obscuring karmas. For this purpose, he performs three processes of which the first falls into the seventh stage, the second into the eighth stage and the third into the ninth stage. During the second process (apūrvakaraṇa) he begins simultaneously with the annihilation of the four apratyākhyānāvaraņa and pratyākhyānāvaraņa passions. When these have half disappeared, he meanwhile destroys three intuition-obscuring karmas and thirteen physique-making karmas. Then he annihilates what still remains of the two species of passions. Thereupon follows the annihilation of the third and female sex-passions, of joking, liking, disliking, sorrow, fear, disgust, male sex-passion, and of the sañjvalana anger, pride and deceit.' After this he leaves the ninth stage and sinks into the sūkşma samparāya gunasthāna where he successively annihilates the sañjvalana greed divided into pieces. As soon as the last piece of greed disappears, all the passions are destroyed and the highest stage of the series is reached. The jīva is now a kşīņa kașāya (12th stage). Then he annihilates two kinds of sleep (nidrā and pracalā), thereupon the five veilings of knowledge, the four veilings of intuition and the five species of the power-hindering karma. Then he becomes a sayogi kevalin (13th stage)? who still wanders for some time on the earth and thereafter attains salvation.
1. This process is for man. For woman and third sex -- the same
change as in the upasama śreņi. 2. Karma-grantha, V.99..