Jaina Epistemology

SR No.: 006738
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Indra Chandra Shastri
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 1990
Total Pages: 516
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 21 MB

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Epistemology of Jainas
(iv) Yoga (vibration); The vibration of body mind and speech is known as yoga. It has fifteen types. The vibrations of mind and speech have the following four varieties each:
1. Satya
2. Asatya
3. Miśra
4.
true false
a mixture of the both
neither of the two
Asatyamṛṣā
The vibration of body i e. kayayoga has seven varieties. The Jainas hold five types of bodies:
(i) Audarika Sarira--the gross body of the animals of human and sub-hnman kingdoms; which contains flesh and blood.
(ii) Vaikriya Sarira - Astral body of the beings of hellish and divine kingdoms and also the Yogic bodies in the human kingdom. They are free from flesh and blood and can be transformed into various forms.
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(iii) Aharaka Sarira-The assimilative overflow : a like white form of one cubit with soul units emanated by a saint from his head.
(iv) Taijasa Sarira-The electric body.
(v) Kārmaṇa Šarīra -The karmic body. The first three bodies individually and mixed comprise two varieties of kayayoga each. The seventh type consists of karmic body.
(vi) Veda-Three types of sexual desires related with the male, female and the third (hermaphrodite).
(vii) Kaṣāya (Passions) - They have twenty-five types i.e. the four types of Anger, conceit, crookedness, and Greed multiplied into four degrees of each, and nine nokaṣāyas (non-passions).
(viii) Jnāna-Eight types of knowledge: five jñānas and three ajñānas,
(ix) Samyama-Five varieties of self-restraint.
(x) Darśana-Four types of inarticulate cognition.