Reals on the Jaina Metaphysics

SR No.: 001619
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Harisatya Bhattacharya
Publisher: Shatnidas Khetsy Charitable Trust Mumbai
Publication Year: 1966
Total Pages: 430
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, Religion, & Epistemology
File Size: 8 MB

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the seven primary and principal Tattva's or categories. “Pūnya' and 'Pāpa' are not separate categories; they are included in 'Asrava'. It has already been stated that the three forms of Yoga effect the Karmāsrava. Some Asrava may generate pleasure, some again produce misery. The former is called “Pūnya' (“Pūnyāsrava' i.e. good in-flow) and the latter "Pāpa' ('Pāpāsrava' i.e. bad in-flow). A Yoga which is Subha or good causes “Pūnyāsrava' and the Yoga which is Aśubha or bad causes 'Pāpāsrava'. 'Ahimsa' (noninjury), 'Açaurya' (non-stealing), 'Brahmaçaryya' (strict celebacy) etc. are instances of Subha Kāya-yoga; Satyavaçana (“telling the truth'), Hita-vaçana (telling words which are useful to another) etc. are Subha vaçana-yoga: 'Arhat Bhakti (regard for the Lord), 'Šāstra-bhakti' (regard for the scripture) etc. are ‘Subha-Manoyoga'; 'Himsā' (injury), Maithuna' (sexual connection) etc. are instances of ‘Aśubha-kāyayoga'; 'Asatya-bhāsaņa' (telling a lie) etc. are Asubha-vaçanayoga, "Vadha-cintā (determination to kill), 'Irşā (malice) etc. are Aśubha Mano-yoga. The Karma's also that flow into the soul on account of the Subha and the Aśubha Yoga's are respectively called the ‘Pūņya' and the 'Papa’. The three Āyuş-karma's viz: Deva-āyus (the life-period of a heavenly being), Manuşya-āyus (the lifeperiod of a human being) and the Tiryak-āyus (the lifeperiod of a lower animal); the thirty seven Nāma-karma's e.g. Deva-gati etc. (the status of a heavenly being) etc.; Uçça-gotra karma (the Karma that accounts for one's birth in a high family); and Sātā-vadanīya-karma (Karma that accounts for a pleasurable feeling), these forty-seven are the Pūņya Karma's. The remaining eighty-two Karma's are Aśubha and Pāpa Karma's.
THE SOUL OF TEN KINDS TEN PRĀŅAS
The ‘Prāņa's' (or life energies) account for the ten modes of a soul. The five 'Indriya's' (senses), "Vaçana' (speech), ‘Manas' (Mind), Sarira-bala' (bodily energy), 'Praņāpāna’