Some Jaina Canonical Sutras

SR No.: 011033
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bimla Charn Law
Publisher: Royal Asiatic Society
Publication Year: 1949
Total Pages: 229
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, & Canon
File Size: 24 MB

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UTTARADHYAYANA SOTRA (UTTARAJ.JHAYAŅA SUYA)
interest torments those beings in many ways. When he is not satisfied with these colours and his craving for them grows stronger and stronger, he will become discontented. Misled by greed he will take another's property. When he is overcome by a violent desire, he takes another's property and when he is not satisfied with those colours, then his decot and falsehood increase on account of bis greed; yet he will not get rid of his misery. A man who is indifferent to true coloursi is free from sorrows. All such passions as anger, pride, deceit, greed, disgust, aversion to self-control, delight in sensual things, mirth, fear, sorrow, carnal desire for women, arise in a man who is attached to pleasures. When he ceases to desire the objects of the senses, bis desire for pleasures will become extinct. A dispassionate man who has performed all duties, will quickly remove the obstacles to right knowledge and right faith. Then he knows and sees all things. He is free from delusions, hindrances and sins. He is proficient in meditation and being pure he will arrive at beatitude. He will get rid of all misery which always afflicts mankind. He becomes infinitely hapiw and obtains the final aim.?
There are cight kinds of kurma: (1) which acts as an obstruction to right knowledge: (jñāņārurunīya), (2) which acts as an obstruction to right faith (dursunararanīya), (3) which leads to experiencing pain or pleasure (reduniya), (4) which leads to delusion (mohaniya), (5) which determines the length of life (āyuh karma), (6) which determines the name or individuality of the embodied soul, (7) which determines gotra or family name, and (8) which prevents a person) from entering the path leading to etemal bliss (antarāya).4
Obstruction to knowledge is five-fold: (a) obstruction to knowledge derived from the sacred books (śrutu); (b) obstruction to perception (ābhinibodhika), (c) obstruction to supernatural knowledge (avadhijñāna), (d) knowledge of the
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1 Leer is the terin signifying colour (Satrakrtingu, 1.0.13; Jaina Sūtrus, II, p. 196 f.11.) The classification of living beings in terms of six colou's may be traced in Pärsva's doctrine of six poikāyas (Acūrūnga, II, 15.16).
? Uttarādl., XXXII.
3 Karma is the deed of the soul. It is a material forming a subtle bond of oxtromoly refined karmic matter which keeps the soul conined to its place of origin or the natural abode of full knowledge and everlasting peace. 4 Uttarādh., XXXIII., 1-3.
Athu kammiim vocchumi unupubbim juhākamam jehim vaddho ayam jiro sunsüre parivuttaill nānassūvaruwijam damsanavaranam tahu! veyanijjam taha moham āukammam tahcvu ya Il nämakamımcm ca goyam ca antarūyam tahcua ya 1 cvameyāi kammā ir aļļheva u samūsao II