Doctrines of Jainism

SR No.: 014008
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vallabhsuri Smarak Nidhi
Publisher: Vallabhsuri Smarak Nidhi Godiji Jain Derasar Mumbai
Publication Year: 1983
Total Pages: 104
Language: English
Classification: Seminar & Articles
File Size: 5 MB

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The Doctrines of the Jainas
equipped to subdue the remaining portion of the passions. The eighth stage is known as Apurva because the soul gets such purification as was never before achieved by him. Here for the first time he aims at complete victory over the passions.
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This complete victory is effected in two ways. Some aspirants have put down their passions and complexes and feel perfect tranquillity on the surface. The repressed complexes, however, lie in the subconscious mind, only waiting for provocation to come to the surface. Others destroy the very root of those complexes, leaving no chance for them to rise again. The first type is known as Upasana shreni and the second as Kshapaka shreni. Upasana means repression and Kshapaka means destruction.
They are compared with two methods of purifying water. The sediment in water can either be removed permanently by filtering or can be precipitated to the bottom through a chemical process. In the latter case the slightest disturbance is sufficient to make the sediment reappear. Similarly, passions and complexes can either be removed for ever or repressed. In the first case the aspirant is in no danger of falling. In the second case the complexes lie dormant in the subconscious mind, awaiting provocation, when they rise again and the aspirant falls. The stories of great Yogins falling from a peak of high spiritual attainment confirm the possibility.
Up to the seventh stage the aspirant adopted mainly the path of Kasayopasana, i.e., partial repression or destruction and partial rise without the fruit-giving intensity (Pradesodaya). Thus the subduing of Anantanubandhi, etc., in previous stages did not mean