Chapter on Passion

SR No.: 001602
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 358
Language: English, Prakrit
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Canon
File Size: 13 MB

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be completed by beings (1) so-born in lower hells below the first (2) born in triad of mansional gods and goddesses etc. except heavenly gods and (3) minimal and medial lower enjoyment lander sub-human male or female or human being. The transition of wrong-faith Karma in righteousness takes place in two stages:
1A
wrong faith → right-cum-wrong faith
In this case, total transition is intended and the right-cumwrongness has been formally taken as wrong faith only.
→ righteousness
The aureoles of the initiator in destruction should be one of the three auspicious ones. The beginner should have at least the volitions corresponding to the first yellow aureole.
The faith-deluding Karma cannot be destroyed in less than an Antarmuhūrta as the required degree of purity of three-fold volitions (of low-tended, unprecedented and similar nature) cannot be acquired there in. At this point, the Jīva becomes destructional right-faithed which restricts the bonding of many karmic species. They bind celestial or human destinity and the corresponding life-span Karma. If the destroyer of faith-deluding Karma has to attain liberation in the same (or single) birth, he will not bind life-span Karma. In other case, he binds life-span as well as other species of the physiquemaking Karma.
The acquirement of partial restraint connotes the purification of volition corresponding to vows of partial abstinence due to non-fruition of partial vow-preventing passions. The word 'cāritta' (Cāritra, right conduct) in the verse represents total