________________
216
À SOURCE-BOOK IN JAINA PHILOSOPHY
says : “abhikkhaņam kāüssaggakārī'' – the seeker practises kāyotsarga very often. Kāyotsarga has been distinguished into two types : (1) Dravya-Kāyotsarga is concerned with the bodily aspect of self-control and (2) Bhāva-Käyotsarga is concerned with the psychic accompaniments of vyutsarga.Dravya-Kāyotsarga refers to the control of the bodily states and Bhāva Kāyotsarga is involved in the Dhar madhyāna. and śukladhyana. Kāyotsarga is one of the important forms of tapas and for this reason we get in the āgamic literature the description that kāyotsarga is in fact a full form of the vyutsarga. The seeker after self-realisation will attain full vyutsarga if he is successful in the practice of kāyotsarga.3
There is a regular procedure and the graded process of the practice of tapas from Anaśana (fasting) to Vyutsarga (renunciation). There is a steady flow of austerities in these graded processes.
From the discussions above, we may conclude that the Jaina description of tapas does not merely refer to the physical austerity, but it has also reference to mental austerity which consists of control and practice of mental states and events, which lead to the purity of the mind and soul.
1 3
Avaśyakacūrņi Jainadharma me Tapa - Svarüpa aur Viślesana (Hindi), p. 523
Jain Education International
For Private & Personal Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
