Jaina Philosophy

SR No.: 006901
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Virchand R Gandhi, Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: World Jain Confederation
Publication Year: 2009
Total Pages: 298
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 5 MB

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The Jaina Philosophy
of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution, and involution.
The second principle is that of non-soul. It is not simply what we understand by matter, but it is more than that. Matter is a term contrary to soul. But non-soul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is non-soul.
The rest of the nine principles are nothing but the different states produced by the combination and separation of soul and non-soul. The third principle is merit; that on account of which a being is happy. The fourth principle is demerit; that on account of which a being suffers from misery. The fifth is the state which brings in merit and demerit. The seventh is destruction of actions. The eighth is bondage of soul, with actions. The ninth is total and permanent freedom of soul from all actions.
Substance is divided into the sentiment, or conscious, matter, stability, space and time. Six kinds of living beings are divided into six classes, earth-body beings, water-body beings, fire-body beings, wind-body beings, vegetables and all of them having one organ of sense, that of touch. These are again divided into four classes of beings having two organs of sense, those of touch and of taste, such as tape worms, leeches. Beings having three organs of sense, those of taste touch and smell; such as ants, lice. Beings having four organs of sense, those of touch, taste, smell and sight, such as bees, scorpions. Beings having five organs of sense, those of touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing. These are human beings, animals, birds, men and gods. All these living beings have four, five or six of the following capacities, capacity of taking food, capacity of constructing body, capacity of constructing organs, capacity of respiration, capacity of speaking and the capacity of thinking. Beings having one organ of sense, i.e. of touch, have the first four capacities. Beings having two,
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