Jainism the Creed for All Times

SR No.: 006564
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: D S Baya
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy
Publication Year: 2006
Total Pages: 420
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 20 MB

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Presently what we have available is the maxim form of canonical texts in the Angapravișta and Angabāhya category and their meanings as interpreted by the commentators down the ages.
According to the canon-omniscient sage Ãcārya Śayyambhava, the author of the Daśavaikālika-sūtra, it is the study of these scriptures that awakens a sense of discrimination between the sinful and pious acts and keeps the aspirant away from misdeeds and engaged in the spiritually beneficial ones.
3. Avadhijñāna (Clairvoyant Perception) - The first direct type of knowledge, which is not derived through the sensory organs and is, therefore, said to be extra-sensory, is Avadhijñāna or clairvoyant perception. Direct perception is also either complete or incomplete. Clairvoyant perception being limited in its scope to only specific regions comes in the category of incomplete direct perception. It is of two types, namely - 1. Bhavapratyayika or class induced type, which is by virtue of birth in certain classes of living beings and is found in the heavenly gods and the hellish denizens. However, the clairvoyant perception of the hellish creatures is of the false variety and is referred to as Vibhanga-jñāna. 2. Kṣāyopaśamika or destructo-subsidential type. It is the type that is gained through the destruction cum subsidence of the clairvoyant perception obscuring karma and is possible in the case of the humans as well as in some five-sensed rational animals. The latter type of clairvoyant perception is of six sub-types again - i. Ānugāmika, which follows the soul birth after birth, ii. Anānugāmika or the one that does not accompany the soul after death, iii. Vardhamāna, which keeps on increasing in its scope, iv. Hiyamāna or the one that decreases with the passage of time, v. Avasthita, which remains constant, and vi. Anavasthita or the one that keeps flickering.
SAMYAGJÑANA (THE RIGHT-KNOWLEDGE) : 143