Concept of Divinity in Jainism

SR No.: 001637
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: P Ajay Kothari
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 248
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Devotion
File Size: 15 MB

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The inflow of karmic particles into the self through the activity (yoga) is asrava. The main cause of asrava is desire, aversion and illusion.99 The karmic pudgalas flow into the self like, the flowing of water into the boat when there is a hole in it. Wrong belief, vow-lessness, negligence, passions, and psycho-physical vibration lead to Asrava."00
Asrava is of two types, viz., dravya-asrava and bhavaasrava. Dravya-asrava means the material inflow of karma and psychical (thought activities) inflow of karma is bhava-asrava. 101
Yoga and kashaya leads to asrava. Yoga is an action of body, speech and mind.102 While kashaya (passion) constitutes anger, pride, deceit, greed.103 The five senses (touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing), four passions (anger, pride, deceitfulness, and greed), and the five types of vow-lessness (killing, false speech, stealing, unchastity and attachment) with yoga are the causes of asrava.104 The twenty five activities105 that can be construed as the consequences of asrava are :
1. Samyaktvakriya-kriya which being of the form of homage paid to a deity, a preceptor or a scriptural text nourishes Samyaktva.
2. Mithyatvakriya-kriya which is of the form of homage paid to a passion-ridden deity and which results through the instrumentality of Mithyatvamohaniya-karma.
3. Prayogakriya-kriya of the form of a bodily operation like coming, going etc.
4. Samadanakriya-kriya of the form of an inclination towards worldly enjoyment on the part of one who has renounced the world.
5. Iryapathakriya-kriya-which causes either the bondage or the experiencing of iryapathakarma that is, karma of a duration of one samaya.
THE CONCEPT OF DIVINITY IN JAINISM