Jaina Acara Siddhanta aur Svarupa

SR No.: 006747
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Devendramuni
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy
Publication Year: 1995
Total Pages: 322
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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Jaina Acāra : Siddhanta aura Swarupa
same. It is followed by the ‘Aupasamika' stage which enables him to attain his natural state of right attitude.
When 'Kodrava' (a species of grain eaten by the poor) is cleaned, a part of it becomes so clean that it is not intoxicant at all. The other part is only partially clean. The third part remains as dirty as before and so retains its power of intoxication. So also in the second stage one cluster of the three deluding perversions becomes clean and remains undefiled; the second, as above, is partly clean and the third is dirty as before. The first state is 'Ksayopasamika', i.e. destruction-cum-subsidence.
The second stage of spiritual development is of 'Sāsvādana'. The soul does not pass on to this stage from the first, but only halts at it while falling down from some higher stage of spiritual development. Thus if at the end of the period of the dawn of the first enlightenment there is the rise of the 'life-long passions, the soul falls down from that enlightenment to this stage. Sometimes the soul climbing up the ladder of subsidence also falls down to this stage.
Imagine somebody has taken 'khira' (a sweetened preparation of rice and milk boiled together) but immediatley he vomits it. The khira has come out but he certainly tasted it. The right attitude is not maintained for long but its taste remains. So it is called 'Sasvādana'. Since the right attitude was blemished , it is also called "Sāsvādana'.
Aspirants at this stage experience only sixteen kinds of bondage : (1) Existence in hell. (2) Longevity in hell. (3) Narakānupūrvi (4) Becoming one-sensed. (5) Two-sensed.
Three-sensed (7) Four-sensed. (8) Immovable body-making (9) Subtle body-making (10) Underdeveloped body. (11) Common body. (12) Hot body (13) Ram-bodied. (14) Able-bodied for nursing the sick. (15) False belief. (16) Androgynus desire.