Jaina Concept of Omniscience

SR No.: 001547
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ramjee Singh
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1974
Total Pages: 258
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, & Knowledge
File Size: 17 MB

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THE PASSAGE FROM NESCIENCE..
The importance of kaṣaya can also be realised from the side of deluding (mohaniya) karma which is said to be the root of all the eight kinds of karmas. Mohanīya karma is of two kinds-faith-deluding (darśana-mohaniya) and conductdeluding (caritra-mohaniya). On the basis of the presence of passions, Caritra-Mohaniya has been further divided into (a) karmas with full-fledged passions (kaṣaya-vedaniya) and (b) karma with impoverished or weaker passions (no-kaṣaya-vedaniya). Karmas of type (a) are of sixteen kinds. To start with, they are classified into four kinds according to four kaṣāyas, namely, anger (krodha), pride (māna), deceit (māyā) and greed (lobha), each of which is again said to consist of four subdivisions: (i) Effor-feeding-passions (anantānubandhi-kaṣāya) or passions which keep the soul tied to the world which is infinite (ananta) and in which the soul is kept wandering by these passions-feeding karmas its erroneous belief. They are also called anantānubandhi-kaṣaya because they nourish or feed wrong-belief. They also keep very long. (ii) Partial-vowpreventing (apratyākhyāna). They do not last very long. (iii) Total-vow-preventing (pratyākhyāna). They are mild. (iv) Perfect-right-conduct-preventing (samjvalana). They are very mild.75 In Gommaṭasāra (Jiva-kāṇḍa), Nemicandra, in the chapter on Kaṣāya-mārgaṇā discusses in detail the problem of Kaşaya-karmas and their effects on different kinds of living beings.70
It would also be interesting to know the two etymological derivations of the term kaşaya given by Nemicandra. In the
of the Tenth Book of Jñana Pravada, one of the fourteen Puúrvagatas. The Purvagatas are five in the all form the five parts of Drştivada. which is regarded as the Twelfth-Anga, containing the direct sermons of Lord Mahāvīra. Vira Sena's Jayadhavala (ed. Phula Candra, Mahendra Kumar & Kailash Candra, Muttra, All India Digambara Jaina Sangha, 1947) is a commentary upon it.
75 Umāsvāmi, T. Sut., VIII.9; Devendra Suri; K. gr. I. 17-22, 57. 76 Nemicandra, Gommațasāra (Jiva-kāṇḍa), 283-298; Devendra Suri, K.gr., I. 17-22.