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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Sutras 17-18]
Bondage, Merit, Demerit, Influx
mous expressions. The state of the soul which is responsible for the entry of karmic matter into the soul is called asrava (influx), i.e., the cause of the bondage of karma.
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We also find the expression "doors of asrava". In that case äsrava means the flow, i.e., the entry of karman. The doors of that (entry), i.e., the means thereto are called the "doors of asrava" meaning 'the conditions of the karmic bondage'.
(Note) The Sanskritization of asava (Pkt.) into asrava is problematic. To us, ǎsava appears to be a tatsama word, identical with Sanskrit asava-which stands for spirituous liquor in general.
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The term asava is used in the Ardhamāgadhī āgamas and Pali tipiṭakas in the sense of what intoxicates, bemuddles and befoozles the soul or the mind so that it cannot rise to spiritual pursuits. This connotation of the word is quite in consonance with the constituents of the asava, viz. mithyātva, avirati, pramāda and kaşāya. Yoga which is also enumerated as asava, is not so in essence, as even an arhat who is vitarāga, has also Yoga in the sense of pure physical activity completely immune from any emotional or passionate background.
१७. मिथ्यात्वमविरतिः प्रमादः कषायो योगश्च ।
मिथ्यात्वं प्रथमतृतीयजीवस्थाने आपञ्चममविरतिः । आषष्ठं प्रमादः । दशमान्तः कषायः । आषष्ठम शुभयोगः । शुभयोगश्चात्रयोदशम् ।
17. mithyātvam aviratiḥ pramādaḥ kaṣāyo yogaś ca.
mithyātvam prathama-tṛtīya-jīvasthāne. apañcamam aviratiḥ, āṣaştham pramādah. dasamāntah kasāyah. āŞaştham aśubhayogah. subhayogaś cãtrayodaśam.
(Aph.) (These are the five types of influx) perversity, non-abstinence, remissness, passion and activity. (XVII)
18. atattve tattvaśraddhā mithyātvam.
(Gloss) Perversity persists in the first and the third stage of spiritual development; non-abstinence, upto the fifth; remissness, upto the sixth; passion, upto the tenth; the inauspicious activity, upto the sixth; and the auspicious activity, upto the thirteenth (stage of spiritual development). १८. अतस्त्वे तत्त्वश्रद्धा मिथ्यात्वम् ।
दर्शन मोहोदयाद् अतत्त्वे तत्त्वप्रतोतिमिथ्यात्वं गीयते ।
darśanamohodayād atattve tattvapratītir mithyātvaṁ gīyate.
(Aph.) Perversity is mistaken faith considering non-truth as truth. (XVIII)
(Gloss) Comprehension of the untruth as truth, consequent upon