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THE JAIN CONCEPTION OF LIBERATION IN THE SUTRAKRTANGA
DR. CH. LALITHA
The Sūtrakrtanga is the second among the eleven extant Jain Angas which belong to the Anga-Pravista group of the Svetambara Jain canonical Literature. This paper aims to study the Jain conception of Liberation as depicted in the Sūtrakrtanga. It is divided into three parts. The first part deals with Jain object of liberation. The second section gives a description of various means of liberation. The third portion deals with the fruits of stages in spiritual realization.
JAIN OBJECT OF LIBERATION
According to the jain standpoint liberation (moksa) is nothing less than aiming to get complete deliberance of the soul from all evil and covering of karma (Sarvavarana vimuktir muktih). Karma is the cause of bondage of the soul. The object of liberation is to tear as under of the snares of karma binding the jiva under the sway of subreption (mith yātra) to the samsāra and hence it is not the result of anything preceding it as its cause.'
P.C. Nahar and K.C. Ghosh (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Jainism, PP. 604, 607.
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