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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others. They have equanimity; or have recovered it after losing it; or have a control which implies pure and absolute non-injury to other souls; they may be all but passionless; or they may be entirely ideal and passionless. So Shakespeare says : - “Give me that man
That is not passion's slave and I will wear him. In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart."
(Hamlet. Act IV Sc. 2.) The above 6 degrees of control give us the Quest of souls with regard to their control.
9. Four conation-quests (Darshana.) The four kinds of co-nation, ocular, non-ocular, visual, and perfect given before form the Conation-Quest.
10.-Six-Thought-Paints (Leshyá). Every-thing which is matter, or mixed up with matter has some kind or other of touch, taste, smell and colour. Our mind and its activity are no exception. They are material and have colour, which they change with every change of their thought activity. A black-hearted man; red with rage; pale with fear; green with jealousy ;-these are familiar phrases. Our thoughts and emotions have a very intimate connection with colours. We may be said to have thought-paints. There are innumerable intermediate characters of paints: but the primary ones are black, blue, grey, yellow, pink or red and white. These 6 form the Soul Quest as to Thought-paint. The Leshyás are the Soul's vibrations effected by mild and strong passions.
11.-Liberability (Bhavyatva). You may seek souls in two classes; those who are capable of Liberation and those who are not capable of Liberation. The capacity of Liberation is the basis of this Quest.
12,--Six Beliefs (Samyaktva). No living being is without some kind of creed, set of beliefs. He may or may not realise or analyse them. He may or may not express them to himself or any one else; but there they are in his inner being always.
Matter deludes the belief and conduct of the soul. But when matter subsides or entirely falls off, we have flashes of right faith and righteous conduct. This right belief may be due to the subsidence or destruction or part-destruction part-subsidence of the matter which keeps it submerged and deluded.