Nandanvana

SR No.: 006597
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 592
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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Mathematical Formulary of Mahāvīran Precepts : (47)
2. The Physical World: Physically, it consists of six realities under two heads - (i) the living and (ü) non-living coexisting in (üi) space, (iv-v) moving and stopping through the inert mediums of motion and rest with respect to (vi) time. It, thus, postulates a 4-d existence".
3. The Spiritual World: Spiritually, the path of happiness, H, is led through the accurate knowledge of seven reals. (I-ii) The living and the non-living combine together to lead to (ii-iv) the worldly existence through the influx and bonding of karmic aggregates with the living through its physical and psychological activities. However, the pure living has a longing for karmic decontaminations. Thus, we have: Worldly Living = Pure living being (soul) + Karma (Body etc.) (1) Or, Worldly living - Karmas = Pure living or liberated soul. (2)
The aim of human life is to attain or create the state of (vii) ultimate happiness or liberation zeroing the suffering of the birth cycles or increasing the content of happiness.*
4. Formulary of Precepts (a) Happiness and Religiosity
This happiness, H, results in proportion to (v) loosening and stopping and (vi) Shredding of karmic bondage through physical or psychological processes of abstention and austerities. The (vii) ultimate happiness, H is the last stage of human exaltation which could also be designated as Religiosity, R, or HOR
(3) The happiness is acquired by following the rationally coordinated path of gem-trio of right faith, knowledge and conduct in comparison to 1 or 2-way path.
(b) Passions, P Desires, D and Happiness: The human world abounds in physical or psychological desires, D, ambitions, attachments, aversions, attainments etc. - all forms of delusioncollectively called passions, P. These may be good or bad, limited and unlimited in numbers. The bad and, therefore, undesirable passions lead to sufferings. In fact, the world is a playground of passions resulting in a mixture of pleasures and pains. The religious path leads to minimizing pains/passions to zero and maximizing the pleasures (happiness) to infinity. Mathematically, one could say that passions, P