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150 Harmless Souls
mohaniya, karman darśana-mohanīya-karman cāritra-mohaniya -karman engenders 3 degrees of
engenders the various passions, mithyātva karman
(kaṣāya), quasi-passions (nokaşāya) and their subtypes, the main division being:
rāga
dvesa
māyā lobha krodha māna
Jaini identifies these 'producers of delusion' as being at the heart of bondage, generating defilement which is characterised by confusion and desire and so causing the soul to become 'confused and desirous' 55 Thus, at one level, darśana-mohanīya and mithyātva karman clearly operate with regard to Jaina religious belief in general, and are explained as such. However, the same terms also carry a more specific weight. Tatia summarises this when he writes that in Jainism,
the term mithyātva (perversity) is generally used to denote the idea of avidyā. The terms mithyādarśana or mithyādęsti (wrong view), darśanamoha (delusion of vision), moha (delusion) etc. are also used in the same sense.
He goes on to say that the function of darśanamoha is to delude the soul and misguide it; under such influence the jīva accepts, among other things, the ajīva as the jīva.56 (Such a use of mithyādarśana can be found, for instance, at Tattvārtha Sūtra 8:1, Bhāşya and Sarvārthasiddhi.)57
55 JPP p. 117. 56 Tatia p. 144.
57 It should be remembered that Jaina philosophy uses the term darśana to denote both 'doctrine' or 'belief and 'undifferentiated
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