Jaina Philosophy and Religion

SR No.: 001604
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nyayavijay
Publisher: B L Institute of Indology
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 500
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, & Epistemology
File Size: 12 MB

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Jaina Path of Purification (Liberation)
and samjvalana. The previous one is more intense than the succeeding one. Those anger, pride, deceit and greed which make the soul wander about from one worldly state to another for an infinite period of time are of the anantānubandhī type. Or, they are so called because they cause infinite misery by causing wrong faith. Those anger, pride, deceit and greed which obstruct partial renunciation of unvirtuous acts, that is, which hamper the proper conduct of a man taking the layman's vows are of the apratyakhyānāvarana type. Those anger, pride, deceit and greed which obstruct not partial renunciation but complete renunciation of unvirtuous acts are of the pratyākhyānāvarana type. Those anger, pride, deceit and greed which do not obstruct the complete renunciation but do obstruct the pure conduct completely free from attachment are of the samjvalana type. From this, it follows that when the spiritual practiser gets rid of the passions of the anantānubandhi type, he attains right faith which is of the nature of the fourth stage of spiritual development; when he gets rid of the passions of the apratyakhyānāvaraṇa type, he attains partial renunciation of unvirtuous acts, that is, now he practises the layman's vows; when he gets rid of the passions of the pratyākhyānāvaraṇa type, he attains total renunciation of the unvirtuous acts, that is, now he practises the great vows of the monk; and when he gets rid of the passions of the samjvalana type, he attains pure conduct free from all sort of attachment. Thus, we have enumerated sixteen types of passions. There are nine quasi-passions (nokaṣāya) associated with passions. They are-laughter, liking, disliking, fear, sorrow, disgust, sexual cravings for male, female and hermaphrodite species. Thus, the total number of the types of conduct-deluding karma comes to twenty-five. And, as already stated, the total number of the types of right-faith-deluding karma is three. So, the total number of the types of the deluding karma comes to twenty-eight. The soul who has attained, in the fourth stage of spiritual development, upasama or kṣāyika samyaktva by effecting subsidence or destruction of the seven out of twenty-eight types, viz., three types of right-faith-deluding karma and the four passions of the anantānubandhi type, effects subsidence or destruction of the remaining types except one, viz., greed of the samjualana type in the eighth and ninth stages. The soul who has started climbing up the ladder of subsidence suppresses this subtle greed in the tenth stage and ascends to the eleventh stage. And the soul who has started climbing up the ladder of destruction destroys the subtle greed in the tenth stage and ascends from the tenth to the twelfth stage; the eleventh stage is not for
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