Outlines of Jainism

SR No.: 007587
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J L Jaini, F W Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 1916
Total Pages: 208
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

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OUTLINES OF JAINISM
stage, on account of mixed right and false belief at one and the same time, it passes through the third stage, and its thought-state then is called misra.] (4) Right faith, but not acted on (avirata-samyaktva). [The soul has faith in the path to salvation, but cannot observe the vows (vratas).] (5) Beginning of right conduct [desa-virata, Partial renunciation of the world.] (6) Slight negligence as to right conduct (pramatta-virata). [After renunciation of all worldly objects, still occasionally to turn the mind to the service or needs of the body.] (7) Right conduct free from all negligence (apramattavirata). [Renouncing the last-named occasional care of the body too.] (8) Initiation to the higher life (apūrvakarana). [Karana, or bhāra, which had not yet found entry into the saint's soul. This is the beginning of the first sukla-dhyana, or white contemplation.] (9) Incessant pursuit of the higher life (anivritti-karaṇa). [Special bhāras of a still greater purity.] (10) Condition almost devoid of desires (sūkshma-samparāya). [All passions (kashaya) are destroyed or suppressed except mere nominal desire (sūkshma - saujvalana - lobha).] (11) Condition entirely devoid of desires (upaśānti). [A psychic condition (bhāra) which is produced by the suppression of the entire conduct-disturbing-charitramohaniya-karma.] (12) Infatuationlessness (kshinamoha). [In this stage all the intoxicating karma is annihilated.] (13) Omniscience in the embodied condition (sayoga-kevalin). [Here the knowledge-obscuring, faithor perception-obscuring, and the obstructive karmas are also destroyed. The soul becomes arhat. But vibrations in the soul remain.] (14) Omniscience (ayoga-kevalin). [This is attained when there is before the sayogakevalin's death enough time to speak out the five letters अ, इ, उ, ऋ, ऌ. The vibrations in the soul cease,