Introduction to Jainism and its Culture

SR No.: 001605
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Balbhadra Jain
Publisher: Kundkund Gyanpith Indore
Publication Year: 2002
Total Pages: 334
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Culture
File Size: 21 MB

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of the self and nature of 'the other', he considers all as his own nature, his own form.
In the realm of humans there is association with family, wealth and many other such things. It is evident that they are other than soul. Their actions and transformations are not under one's control. Still man believes them to be his and has fondness for them. They are not his but he stills accepts them as his. In the same way he does not know the true form of god, teacher, and religion. He does not accept the true form of these and instead hankers after false god, false teacher, and false religion. Thus fruition of perception deluding karmas causes a soul to have attitude of false perception.
Fruition of conduct deluding karinas (Cāritra Mohanīya karma) causes a soul to have passions. He imagines good and bad in other things and invokes feelings of anger, conceit, deceit, and greed. When in anger he consciously thinks and tries to harm them and in the process harms him-self. He can not harm others because any harm to that other comes only through fruition of karmas of that other.
On fruition of mâna (conceit producing karma) he considers himself to be better than others. He wants to cause others to fall, insults and ignores others and wants respect, status and fame for him-self. Because of conceit a man consider him-self to be great. However, to be respected or insulted by others is dependent on karmas.
On fruition of māyā (deceit producing karma) a man thinks of numerous ways of cheating or defrauding in order to acquire living or non-living things. To cheat and defraud is a man's prerogative but to attain liberation is dependent on karmas.
On fruition of lobha (greed producing karına) a man craves for a variety of living and non-living things and tries hard to get them. When he gets one thing he starts hankering for other and is never satiated. When his desire for one hundred is fulfilled he desires for a thousand, and on getting a thousand he desires for ten thousand. This hide and seek of desire and dissatisfaction never ends all his life. All this is under his control but fulfillment of desire or ambition is dependent on fruition of pious or good karmas. Caught in the trap of insatiable cravings for pleasures man still keeps on floundering.
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