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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(70) Nandanavana
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degree of spiritual progress in dependent upon the gradual withdrawal from nine-fold physical and psychical propensities like food, accessories, passionate behaviour and others as mentioned in Utt. 29.360. The component of renunciation is important among these duties. It has been defined in terms of practical/physical and ideal forms. Physically; it involves the abandonment of six-fold improper propensity of mind, speech and body. It may be vows of restrictions obstructing observance of proper restraints. Ideally, as per Kundakunda, it is the renunciation of mental dispositions leading to karmic bonding The object of renunciation is to observe the vows by avoiding future flaws and dispositional purification leading to control of the influx of karmas. The physical renunciation leads to dispositional purification. It has been described and ten-foldly classified in many texts like Bh. 7.2, Sth. 10.101, AS 6 and MC 63940.
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Though, DSV and Utt. do not seem to have the term Avaśyaka, still Utt. 29 has the names of six Āvaśayakas under the chapter on Samyaktva-Parakrama (Valour of Righteousness) where renunciation has been mentioned without definition and classification though later in some chapters it mentions nine-fold renunciation in terms of renunciation of (1) eating together (2) accessories (3) food (4) passions (5) activities (6) body attachment (7) refuge or help from others (8) foods and drinks during holy death ritual and (9) good dispositions. These represent the items of renunciation rather than its classification. Bh. A. names the terms 'Avaśyaka' with no details about the kinds of renunciation except by the commentator. It seems that the classification of this factor may be a later development or it might not have been included in these texts because of its common nature for the ascetics. Its ten-fold classification in different texts is given in Table 8:
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Table 8: The Decad of Renunciation
64 AS65 Bh. 7.266
Sth.
1. Anāgata (Earlier performance)
2. Atikränta (Later performance)
3. Koti-sahit (Associated with end-point) 4. Niyantrita (Future-based/vow-based) 5. Sākāra (Exception-based)
MC 639-4067
1
2
3 (Resolve-based)
4 (Nikhandita-inevitability)
5 (Distinctive)