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KAMAL CHAND SOGANI (3) Purgation or (a) Viratāvirata Gunasthāna and (b) Pramattavirata Gunasthāna.
After dispelling the dense and intense darkness caused by the vision-deluding (Darśana Mohanī ya) Karma, the passionate and ardent longing of the awakened self is to purge the conduct deluding (Carītra Mohanīya) Karma which now stands between it and the transcendental self. Only those who are in possession of sturdy will are capable of doing so, says Amộtacandra'. In the fifth Gunasthāna, the aspirant who is a householder is incapable of making himself free from all Himsā root and branch2. In consequence, he adopts the five partial vows (Anuvratas) along with the seven Śila vratas in order to sustain the central virtue of Ahiṁsā as for as possible. This state of the self's journey has been called Viratāvirata or Deśavirata Gunasthāna, since here the aspirant avoids intentional Himsā of two to five-sensed Jivas, but he has to commit the intentional Himsā of one sensed Jivas namely the vegetable bodied, fire bodied etc.4 Besides, the Himsā which is committed in being engaged in a certain profession, in performing domestic activities and in adopting defensive measures, cannot be avoided by hims. This shows that the householder's life is a mixture of virtue and vice, which obstruct the purgative way pursued by the mystic. Hence the aspirant, being motivated by certain incentives to spiritual life (Anuprekşās) gradually renounces the householder's type of living, becomes a saint in order to negate Himsā to the last degree?. In consequence, the saint observes five Mahāuratas, five Samitis, three Guptis and practises 1. Purusärthasiddhyupa ya, 37. 2. Ibid. 75
Ratnakaranda Sravakåcåra, 51; Purusärthasiddhyupaya, 136. Gommatasara Jivakānda, 30, 31 Fainadarśana by Pt. Chainsukhdass, P. 65. (Sadbodha Granthamālā.
Jaipur.) 6. Ethical Doctrines in Jainism by K, C. Sogani, P. 87 (Jivaraja Grantha.
mālā, Sholapur) Ibid. P. 120.
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