Jainism

SR No.: 001646
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Herbert Warren
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society
Publication Year: 1966
Total Pages: 135
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Philosophy
File Size: 6 MB

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JAINISM
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generated in this stage, such as the somnambulistic state, or sleep states of the intensity where the person or animal is asleep while walking, or where he rolls to and fro while asleep, standing or sitting, in which states the senses do not work and the first stage of knowledge is prevented. (In clairvoyance or psychic knowledge, as it has been called (see pages 25-26], the clairvoyance is experienced while the five senses are awake, and not while in sleep or trance.)
Intense dislike of the truth is not generated in this fourth stage of development; nor is the worst degree of anger, pride, deceitfulness or greed, nor are the neuter and feminine sex passions generated in this stage. Nor is hell or animal existence generated; nor an unsymmetrical body; an ungainly walk; an unmusical voice; nor unpopularity.
However, we may generate, in this fourth stage, forces which obscure knowledge; also forces which cause pleasure and pain, the less intense anger, etc., prejudice, grief, fear, male sex passion, life as man or angel, a good, wellformed body, musical voice, popularity, etc., life in social surroundings not low; also we are in this stage liable to generate forces which make us morally weak, mean, unable to make profit, to enjoy good things, though amongst them, or to do some good actions which we might wish to do.
FIFTH STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT
The removal, one by one, of the four classes of instrumental causes which make us what we actually are, is the means whereby we become what we are potentially; For Private & Personal Use Only