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to appreciate that a person under the influence of these passions and not vigilant enough to control the activities of his body, mind and speech will tend to be unrestrained and reckless.
Part And Whole Restraint - Whole or complete restraint means carefully avoiding and not indulging in any sinful activity, which, in turn, involves complete suppression of passions and media of action - body, mind and speech - and is quite difficult to achieve. Only the very highly righteous monks are able to achieve this supreme accomplishment. However, even giving up one or more means of sinful activities by partly suppressing passions and media of activities is desirable and is, therefore, termed as part restraint. It must be understood that all unrestrained activities are sinful and they soil, tarnish and vitiate the soul as they result in karmic bondage and even part restraint prevents this karmic bondage to the extent that restraint is practised.
Types Of Self-restraint (Saniyama)? –
In the Jaina literature various types of restraints have been mentioned. They depend upon the media, means and victims of one's actions. Four types of divisions based on these varying considerations are as follows: - 1. This division is based on the control of senses and care in
dealing with ten types of vitality of the living beings. The seventeen types of controls that fall in this category are
given below:A. Restrained Senses (Indriya Samyama) involving -
i Restrained sense of touch, ii Restrained sense of taste, iii Restrained sense of sight, iv Restrained sense of smell,
V Restrained sense of hearing, ? First Steps To Jainism, pp. 93–96.
32 : JAINISM: THE CREED FOR ALL TIMES
| SR No. | 006564 |
| Book Title | Jainism the Creed for All Times |
| 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 |