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out making room for the check 42 Thus the check is derived from controls, discipline, spirituality, anupreksa, conquest of hardships and conduct 43
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Guptis or controls are of three types, viz, control of mind, speech and body
Samitis or disciplines are of five types, viz., discipline in movement, in speech, in begging, in receiving and throwing out and in depositing excreta.
Dharma or spirituality consists of ten items, viz, superior type of forgiveness, humility, simplicity, purity, truth, restraint, penance, renunciation, poverty and celibacy.
Anuprekṣā consists of twelve items, viz, transcience, nonsupport, worldly life, unity, differentiation, impurity, influx, check, exhaustion, universe, difficulty in enlightenment and spirituality.
Hardships are of twenty two types, viz., hunger, thirst, cold, heat, bite, nudity, restlessness, woman, carya, niṣadyā, bed, malice, homicide, begging, non-gain, disease, thorn, dirt, respect and gift, knowledge, ignorance, non-faith To conquer them is to conquer hardships.
Conduct is of five types, viz., sāmāyıka, chedopasthāpanā, parihāravisuddhi, sūkṣmasamparāya and yathākhyāta.
These have been described in details in the Jaina texts
The Doctrine of Exhaustion
The total absence of the bondage of subjective as well as objective karma is called nirjarā or exhaustion. This also has two types viz, subjective and objective. The pure attitudes of the soul which help the clearance of subjective karma constitute subjective exhaustion, and the clearance of objective karma like those enshrouding knowledge is objective exhaustion 44
42 Atmakhyatı Commentary of Samayasara, Gāthā, 183.
43 Tyttvärtha Sutra, 9/2
44 Dravya Samgraha, Gatha, 36
