tman_and_moksa

SR No.: 020053
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G N Joshi
Publisher: Gujarat University
Publication Year: 1965
Total Pages: 901
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
· Jainism
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The ninth Prāņa Ānapāna prāņa gives the powers of respiration; and the tenth prāņa, Āyu prāņa, is the possession of the allotted span of life during which the jiva has to sustain a particular bodily form.' It is said in the Dravya-Samgraha --"According to Vyavahāra Naya, that is called Jiva, which is possessed of four Prāņas, viz. Indriya (the senses ), Bala (force), Āyu (lise) and the Āņa-prāņa (respira. tion) in the three periods of time (viz. the present, the past and the future) and according to Nischaya Naya, that which has consciousness is called J.va."?
Jainism possesses quite an elaborate and thoroughgoing classification of Jivas. The Jivas are broadly divided into the intelligent (samanaska) and unintelligent (amanaska). The samanaska Jīvas are those who are samjõin or capable of receiving education and instruction and the amanaska are those who are incapable of receiving the samjñā in the form of education and instruction and of imita. ting actions of others. The samanaska Jīvas are those that are capable of thinking in terms of the goodness and badness of actions, i.e., discrimination. They can reflect over the nature of actions and can discriminate good from bad, right from wrong. In this category fall the Gods (Devas), the Gandharvas and human beings.3 Umāswamin also divides the Samsărin Jivas broadly into two classes --as the Trasas and the Sthāvaras. The earth, water and
1 Stevenson Sinclair : The Heart of Jainism, p. 96.
3 Ghosal S. C. : Dravya-Sarngraha, pp. 4, 5. The Sacred Books of the Jainas.
8 Sarvadars'anasangraha, p. 70.
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