Aspects of Jaina Monasticism

SR No.: 001332
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nathmal Tatia, Mahendramuni
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1981
Total Pages: 175
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Philosophy
File Size: 10 MB

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68 The Four Monastic Courses
tas (the great vows), the samitis mer case is one, two, three, etc., and the guptis. At the time of ini- while in the latter it is 2000.181 tiation, he has both these kinds of (13) Abhigraha (Secret Resolve): equipments, but later on he may be The practitioner of the Victor's dispossessed of the physical equip- Course does not make occasional ment, and left with only the spiri- secret resolves pertaining to beggtual one, which is the essential fea- ing, etc., as the Victor's Course ture of the practitioner.178
itself is a lifelong resolve.182 (10) Leśyā (Colour Indices): Ini (14 and 15) Pravrājana, Mundātially the practitioner of the Vic- pana (Initiation and Tonsure or tor's Course has necessarily any of Hairplucking) : He does not initiate the three benevolent leśyās and or give advice to any ordinary none of the three malevolent ones. candidate. But in a special case of But later on he may change to any an extraordinary candidate who is one of the six. The practitioner, sure to adopt a monk's life, he may however, would not sink to the recommend him to competent leardeeper levels of the malevolent loss ned monk (gītārtha) for initiation. yās, and also would not continue to Similarly, he would not accept a be there for a long period. 179
candidate for hairplucking.183 (11) Dhyāna (Meditation: The
(16) Minimum Expiation : He is practitioner, at the time of initia
itio liable to the third category of tion, is in a state of gradually dee
punishment, viz. anugghāya, i.e., pening meditation on the nature of
caturguruka for even mentally things (dharma-dhyāna), but later
indulging in a subtle act of transon he may fall down to the inauspi- gression (aticära). 184 cious (aprašasta) categories of (17) Käraña (Unexceptional Condhyāna, viz. meditation on account
duct): His conduct is not liable to of painful experience (ārta) or the
any exception or change under eruption of the passion of anger
any circumstance (kāraņa), such as (raudra). But this fall is not going to another ācārya for knowmostly so deep as to be capable of ledge, and so on.185 producing a resultant (anubandha) (18) Nispratikarna (Avoidance in the future, because of the pre- of Physical Care and Medical Treatdominance of virtuous propensities ment): He does not even clean his in bim, 180
eyes or take any medicine for any (12) Gananā (Number): At the ailment.186 stage of initiation, the maximum (19) & (20) Bhaktam (Time of number of such practitioners may begging food) and panthāh (deparbe upto 900 at a particular mo- ture) : He should perform these ment, but the maximum number duties in the third quarter of the of those engaged in practice may day, 187 devoting the remaining be 9000 at a particular moment. quarters mostly to the practice of The minimum number in the for- kāyotsarga. As regards the second