ISJS Jainism Study Notes E5 Vol 02

SR No.: 007712
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: International School for Jain Studies
Publisher: International School for Jain Studies
Publication Year: 2012
Total Pages: 404
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 13 MB

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awakened, the Samyagdrsti considers his own self as his genuine abode regarding the outward physical dwelling places as artificial. 39 He renounces all identification with the animate and inanimate objects of the world and properly weighs them in the balance of his discriminative knowledge.40 His is the only self that has acquired the right of Moksa. Besides, he practices universal compassion (Anukampā)41, does not hanker after worldly opulence and empyrean pleasures, 42 shows no feeling of disgust at the various bodily conditions caused by disease, hunger43 etc., and is free from all fears. 44 Again, being overwhelmed by fear, inferiority and greed for profit, he does not recognize Himsā as Dharma.45 Apart from this, he has deep affection for spiritual matters and strengthens the conviction of those who are faltering in their loyalty to the path of righteousness46 and disseminates spiritual religion through various means best suited to time and place.47
3. Fall from awakening or (A) Sāsādana-gunasthāna and (B) Miśra Guņasthāna If the spiritual awakening is due to the total annihilation of Darśana-mohaniya (Visiondeluding) Karma, the self has thrown over all the chances of its fall to the lower stages.48 But if the spiritual awakening is consequent upon the suppression of Darsana-mohaniya Karma, the self either falls to the lower stages or remains in the same stage with the emergence of certain defects ordinarily incognizable.49 If the self descends to the first gunasthāna, again darkness overwhelms him; 50 or the self falls to the third gūnasthāna, namely, Miśra gunasthāna wherein total skepticism as regards matters spiritual prevails. 51 Sāsādana gūnasthāna is the intermediary stage of the self which has fallen from the peak of the
37 Gommattasāra-jīvakānda, 647 38 Bhāvanāviveka by Pt. Chainsukhdass, 93, 100 (Jaina Vidya Sansthana, Jaipur) 39 Labdhisära, 108 40 Yogadrstisamuccaya, 78, 79 80 41 Studies in Jaina Philosophy by Nathmal Tatia, P. 273. 42 Kärttikeyanupreksā 197 (Rajachandra Ashrama, Agas)
Yogabindu, 266 44 Yogadrstisamuccaya, 155 45 Samadhi-sataka of Pujyapāda, 73, (Vira Seva Mandir, Delhi) 46 Moksa-pähuda, 17 *7 Rājavārtika of Akalanka, 1 2/30 (Bharatiya Gyanapeeth, New Delhi) 48 Purusārthasidhyupāya of Amrtacandra, 24 (Rajachandra Ashrama, Agas) 49 Ibid. 107 50 Gommattasara-Jivakārda, 19 51 Darsana aura Cintana, Pt. Sukhalal P. 276.
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