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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Illuminator of Jaina Tenets
[Lustre VII
(Aph.) The following states are attended with shedding off (the kar. mic matter) which is progressively innumerable times the preceding one : (the karmic shedding off in) the samyag-drşți (i.e., the fourth state) (is innumerable times that in the last instant of the apūrva-karana process in the first guṇasthāna called mithyādsști); (the fifth gunasthāna of) the partially abstinent; the destroyer of endless passions; the destroyer of faith-deluding karman; one who is repressing conduct-deluding karman; one who has repressed (conduct-) deluding karman; one who is destroying (conduct-) deluding karman; one who has destroyed (conduct-) deluding karman; the omniscient. (XVIII)
(Note) The starting point of the spiritual development is the weakening or eradication of the endless passions. This is effected by means of penance. It consists in their repression or repression-cum-extirpation or extirpation. After the achievement of this weakening or elimination, it becomes easier for the aspirant to rectify his world. view called darśana. Under the influence of the passions the soul fails to get vision of truth. And the endless passions are incapable of elimination without right type of penances. It should be noted here that concentration (dhyāna) is an essential part of penance. It is rather the apex. The repression or the extirpation of the endless passions confers a purity on the soul, consequent upon the shedding off (nirjara) of karmic matter due to penance. This is the minimum nirjară for a spiritual aspirant. This has been called the nirjară of samyagdrști, i.e., the fourth state. Now, the nirjară is gradually higher in the fifth and sixth/seventh states.
The nirjară in the case of the extirpation of the endless passions is higher than in the state of complete abstinence in the sixth and the seventh state) attained by means of the subsidence-cum-destruction of the (conduct-) deluding karman. १६. सूक्ष्मसंपरायान्तः सांपरायिको बन्धः।
सकषायस्य शुभाशुभकर्मबन्धः सांपरायिक उच्यते, स च सप्तकर्मणामानवमजीवस्थानम्, आयुर्बन्धकाले तृतीयवर्जमासप्तममष्टकर्मणामपि, आयुर्मोहौ विना षट्कर्मणां च दशमे ।
18. süksmasamparāyāntah sämparāyiko bandhah.
sakaşāyasya śubhāśubhakarmabandhaḥ sāmparāyika ucyate. sa ca saptakarmaņām ānavamajīvasthānam, āyurbandhakāle trtīyavarjam āsaptamam așțakarmaņām api, āyurmohau vinā șațkarmaņāṁ ca daśame.
(Aph.) The transmigrative (-leading to transmigration) bondage (of karmans) continues upto the (tenth) state of subtle passions (XIX)
(Gloss) The bondage of auspicions and inauspicious karmays by a person swayed by passions is called transmigrative. This bondage consists in the accession of seven types of karman up to the ninth state. At the