Gommatasara Jiva Kanda

SR No.: 001612
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nemichandra Siddhant Chakravarti, J L Jaini
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1927
Total Pages: 438
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Principle, & Canon
File Size: 9 MB

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Impulse (Sanjná): and (14) Soul-quests (Márganá); also (12 kinds of) Conscious Attentiveness (Upayoga); respectively have been described (in) 20 chapters.
NOTE:--In the 20 chapters, the 14 soul-quests alone form 14 chapters, the others take one chapter each. Gáthá 4 tells us how Soul-classes, Developableness, Vitalities, Rationality and Attention are included in the 14 Quests, and therefore the chief considerations in treating of the soul are,
14 Spiritual stages, the degree to which the mundane soul has
advanced in its freedom from wrong-belief, vowless
ness, negligence, passions and vibratory activity; and 14 Soul-quests, the conditions, circumstances, and equip
ments which help us to identify the soul when we are seeking to mark it in the infinity of mundane exis
tences. These 2 are also interconnected. The stages classify the soul briefly; the quests take them up in greater detail (See Gáthá 3).
The stages are named in Gáthás, 9-10; मिन्छो सासण मिस्सो अविरदसम्मो य देसविरदो य । विरदा पमत्त इदरो अपुच अणियहि सुहमो य ॥ ६॥ उबसंत खीणमोहो सजोगकवलिजिणो अजोगी य । चउदस जीवसमासा कमेण सिद्धा य णादव्वा ॥ १०॥
The English translation is :
Delusion (Mithyátvá); Downfall (Sásádana); mixed (Mishra), and vowless right belief (Avirata Samyaktva), Partial-vow (DeshaVirata); imperfect vow (Pramatta-Virata), the other, perfect vow (Apramatta-Virata), New thought activity (Apúrva Karana), Advanced thought-activity (Anivritti Karana), slightest Delusion (Súkshma Sámparáya), Subsided-delusion (Upashánta Moha), Delusionless (Kshina Moha), Vibratory omniscient conqueror (Sayoga Kevalí Jina), and non-vibratory omniscient (Ayoga-Kevalí), these 14 should be known to be the spiritual stages (Gunasthána), one after another. After the last, the soul becomes liberated (Siddha).
The Quests are given in Gáthá 142:गइइंदियेसु काये जोगे वेदे कसायणाणे य ।
संजमदंसणलेस्सा भवियासम्मत्तसणिणाहारे ॥ १४२ ॥