Illuminator of Jaina Tenets

SR No.: 006924
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1985
Total Pages: 252
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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Stra 15 1 Bondage, Merit, Demerit, Influx
kalabā’bhyākhyānapaisunya - paraparivāda - ratyarati - māyāmsșā - mithyādarśanaśalyapāpāny api bhāvanīyāni. vyākhyāntarenayadudayena bhavet aśubhā pravsttiḥ, tan mohanīyam karmāpi tattat kriyāśabdenocyate. yathā-prāņātipātajanakam mohanīyam karma prāņātipātapāpam ity ādi. (Aph.) The inauspicious karman is demerit. (XIV)
(Gloss) The inauspicious karman, namely the knowledge-obscurant and the like, is called demerit. Metaphorically, even those that are the causes are also designated by those terms (which stand for the results of those causes), and as such the inauspicious karman is of 18 kinds (on account of 18 causes), e.g. the demerit of prānātipāta is the inauspicious karman resulting from prānātipāta (injury to life). Similarly, falsehood, stealing, sexual activity, possession, anger, pride, deceit, greed, attachment, hatred, quarrel, abuse, backbiting, censure, perverse indulgence in respect of non-restraint and restraint, deceitful-untruthfulness, the thorn of perverted faith?-are all demerits.
On another interpretation, the deluding-karman, the emergence of which is responsible for different sinful activities, is also designated by the names of those different activities. For instance, the deluding-karman which is the cause of (the activity of) injury to life is called the demerit of injury to life, and so on. १५. द्रव्यभावभेदादेते बन्धाद् भिन्ने।
द्रव्यं तक्रियाविरहितम्, भावश्च तक्रियापरिणतः। अनुदयमानाः सदसत्कर्मपुद्गला बन्धः-द्रव्यपुण्यपापे, तत्फलानर्हत्वात् । उदयमानाश्च ते क्रमशो भावपुण्यपापे, तत्फलार्हत्वाद्-इत्यनयोर्बन्धाद्
15. dravyabhāvabhedād ete bandhād bhinne.
dravyam tatkriyāvirahitam, bhāvaś ca tatkriyāpariņatah. 1 Perverted attitude is compared to a piercing thorn because it is the cause of excru
ciating pain for the aspirant who ceaselessly struggles to get over it by spiritual exertions which are ingrained in him. It bemuddles the spiritual vitality of a person and perpetuates his ignorance and leads him to incur heinous sins. Deceitfulness, greed and perversity are so many thorns that must be rooted out by a spiritual aspirant in order to be able to adopt the life of an ascetic, that presupposes right vision of truth.