Mahavira and his Philosophy of Life

SR No.: 006934
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamalchand Sogani
Publisher: Jain Vidya Samsthan
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 80
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

Page 42

because of this involvement. From the impure psychical states the Karma (impure material particles) as such comes into being and from the Karma, his transmigration in the four grades of existence takes place. From the Jiva who has transmigrated to a grade of existence, the body arises and from the body senses come into being. By means of the senses, there is the seizing of the senseobjects. By reason of that attachment and aversion occur.
Thus, during the transmigration of Jiva, arise in him psychical states of attachment and aversion, which are beginningless and endless or they are beginningless but having an end because of his developing spirtitual awakening (Samyagdarsana), Right knowledge (Samyagjňāna) and ethico-spiritual conduct
(Samyakcāritra).
Spiritual Awakening (Samyagdarsana)
Spiritual awakening is the beginning of spiritual pilgrimage, and it is the foundation of the magnificent edifice of liberation. Spiritual perversion acts as a barricade to soul's true life. It is at the root of all evils, the seed of the tree of Samsara. The person experiencing spiritual perversion becomes perverted in his attitude. It poisons all our activities, so as to check the realisation of the Summum Bonum of life. Moreover, it is responsible for the perversity of knowledge and conduct alike. So long as spiritual perversion is operative, all our efforts to witness the sun of self's glory are bound to fail. Thus it is to be rooted out in the interest of rendering its unwholesome function null and void. In other words, spiritual awakening is to be attained, which in turn will make knowledge and conduct conducive to the attainment of Paramatman. It is only after the acquisition of spiritual awakening that the person
Mahavira and his Philosophy of Life
25