Bhikshu Agam Visjay kosha Part 2

SR No.: 016049
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vimalprajna, Siddhpragna
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 732
Language: Hindi
Classification: Dictionary, Dictionary, Agam, Canon, & agam_dictionary
File Size: 17 MB

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Foreward
The monk liable for the "parañcita" penances, which is the tenth prayaścitta could only be a person possessed of vajra-rsbha-näräca-samhanana (i.e., the strongest type of bone-structure in which. the bone-joints are bolted with nail, bone-joints are interlocked and cross-tightened).
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The patience and the bone-structure are intensely related with each other. A person possessed of a strong bone-structure has more patience than one of a weak bone-structure. The living being which is possessed of the weakest bone-structure (sevärtta samhanana) i.e., one which is possessed of the weakest power, cannot get re-incarnation beyond the fourth heaven (kalpa) in the higher existence and the second hell in the lower existence.
In the ancient times, there was the tradition of "gurukulavasa" (i.e. to live with the teacher during the period of studies). In the religious orders also, similar tradition was prevalent. A pupil desirous of higher studies could be got transferred to another gana (leaving own gana) through upasampada (ordination) there. On completion of the desired purpose, the pupil had to join back his original gana. There (in the other gana), the pupil had to undergo a very strict scrutiny and only after finding fit for the entry, he would be allowed to stay there as a "guest-pupil" (praticchaka). The guru (ācārya) would warn him before the admission into the new gana, "You belonged to a gana, which was like the maternal family of a daughter in-law; now you want to join our gana, it would be like the family of the in-laws for a daughter-in-law. You should know that any remissness on the part of the daughter-in-law in her father-in-law's family is not tolerated; similarly, we would not tolerate your remissness here. Even in spite of reprimanding thrice for the same kind of lapse, if you would repeat it for the fourth time, you would be dismissed from our gana. If you have that much power of forbearance, you may stay here, otherwise not."
The novice, before his entry into the new gana, also would like to test the new guru. In this way, a tradition of development of knowledge was kept in tact.
The scriptural knowledge is like the third eye. Any monk (or acarya) who was possessed of extraordinary scriptural knowledge (for example, who was a possessor of the ten purvas--the texts of the Earlier Lore of Scriptures), was not allowed to take intensive course of the Jinakalpa, for maintaining the continuity of the tradition of the scriptural knowledge (for, if he would become a Jinakalpi, he would lead a completely secluded life and would not involve himself in the teaching process). Such knowledgeable monks (or ācāryas) would render immense services to the religious order through their scholarship and crudition. The scriptures serve as the steady basis of the long standing of the religious order. A monk who occupies himself in rendering medical services to a possessor of scriptural knowledge (or a possessor of fourteen purvas) spiritually gets the benefit of immense nirjara (falling off of the karma).
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