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

Page 115

tra 25 ]
Bondage, Merit, Demerit, Influx
(Note): Anger, pride, deceit and greed are the four passions, each of which admits of four varieties according as they vary in intensity and duration. The first is one which entails an indefinite series of birth and rebirth. It affects throughout the series of lives of the person subject to it. The second is that which makes a man unfit for pursuit of vows even in a partial manner. The third prevents the cultivation of the totality of the vows. The fourth precludes the cultivation of the full course of ascetic life. Like a sudden blast of wind, it upsets even an ascetic who has succeeded in restraining himself from all sorts of sinful tendencies.
The first variety of anger is comparable to a scratch on stone which persists for an indefinitely long time; the second variety is comparable to a scratch on earth which is less persistent than the first; the third is like a scratch en sand, which endures for a short time; the fourth is like a scratch on water which is immediately obliterated.
The first variety of pride is compared to a hard stone which does not bend. The second is like a bone pillar which bends to slight degree. The third is like a pillar of wood because of its flexibility and intensity. The fourth is like a bower of creepers, which is easily flexible.
Deceit also has four varieties respectively comparable to the root of a bamboo tree, horn of a ram, the line of urine left by a walking bull and the skin of a bamboo peeled off.
The four kinds of greed are comparable to the colour of a silkworm, of mud, safflower and turmeric which diffor in inverso degree in respect of intensity and duration. 78. -115-7-utaret ITT: 1
वीर्यान्तराय-क्षय - क्षयोपशम - शरीरनामकर्मोदयजन्यः कायभाषामनो. वर्गणा'पेक्षः कायवाङ्मनःप्रवृत्तिरूप:-आत्मपरिणामः योगोऽभिधीयते । 25. kāya-văn-mano-vyaparo yogah.
vīryāntarāya- kşya - kşayopasama - sariranāmakarmodaya - janyaḥ kāyabhāṣāmanovargaņālpeksaḥ kāyavāńmanahpravrtti - rūpahātmapariņāmaḥ yogo’bbidhiyate.
(Aph.) 'Activity' consists in the operation of body, organ of spoech, and the mind. (XXV)
(Gloss) The mutation of the soul-which is of the nature of the operation of body, organ of speech and mind, depending (respectively) upon the material aggregates constituting body, speech and mind, and is produced on account of the destruction or destruction-cum-subsidence of the energy-obstructing karman as well as the rise of the bodymaking (which is a subtype of) nāma karman-is called activity. .
१ सजातीयपुद्गलसमूहो वर्गणा। 1 sajātiyapudgalasamūho vargaņā.