Concept of Pancasila in Indian Thaought

SR No.: 001666
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamla Jain
Publisher: P V Research Institute Varanasi
Publication Year: 1983
Total Pages: 290
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Principle
File Size: 16 MB

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Celibacy and Chastity
sions and their respective punishments, as for example if a monk pondering over a nun, or desiring to see her again, gets fever due to this desire, or has burning sensation, or has no taste of food etc., he has to undergo fasting for a certain period (different in different cases of intensity of desire and its manifestation) as prescribed by the texts such as laghumāsa, gurumāsa, catvaramāsa, etc.1 If, for example, he faints due to lust, he has to undergo cheda2; if he becomes hysterical, mula punishment is inflicted upon him. Anavasthāpya punishments is inflicted upon one who has lost his understanding out of this intensity of lust. The last prayaścitta, pārāñcika, is inflicted upon the monk if, for example, he dies in this intensest outburst of lust4 (after death however whatever punishment is inflicted is immaterial). Then again, if for example the monk develops intimacy with a nun or queen, or murders the king for this cause, or indulges in homosexual activities, he is charged with the same pārāñcika punishment", which is the severest punishment in the Jaina code.
These illustrations, which are only a brief sketch of punishments, would tend to show that in the Jaina monastic community the problem was existent in spite of the rigidity of the disciplinary rules. However, these matters of fact enumerations of the punishment would definitely reveal the functioning. of the rules with an adjustment to human psychology.
So far it is all regarding the vow of the monks for complete renunciation of sexual desires, but the vow of the laity,. like his other aņuvratas, meaning partial control of sexual and sensual desires, is to be discussed in the second part of this chapter. Here the desire of the laity is confined to one's wife, this is considered less advanced, but not contrary to spiritual endeavour.
1. Brh. Kalp. Bha., III, 2258-62.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
Ibid.
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5. Sthan, p. 162 b.
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