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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Nahar and Ghosh write — “Bandha is coalescence of the soul and Karma matter like milk and water."! S. Dasgupta expresses the relation between the two in the following words —"The actual connections of the Karmas with the soul are like the sticking of dust on the body of a person who is besmeared all over with oil. Thus Gunaratna says -- "The influx of Karma means the contact of the particles of Karma matter, in accordance with the particular kind of Karma, with the soul, just like the sticking of dust on the body of a person besmeared with oil. In all parts of the soul there being infinite number of Karma atoms it becomes so completely covered with them that in some sense when looked at from that point of view the soul is sometimes regarded as a material body during its saṁsāra stage."? The same is said in the Sarvadars'anasangraha.
Jainism recognises four kinds of bondage or bandha; they are the Prakriti, Sthiti, Anubhāga and the Prades'a bandha. The Dravya Samgraha says“Bandha is of four kinds, according to the subdivi. sions viz. Praksti, Sthiti, Anubhāga and Prades'a. Prakrti and Prades'a are (produced) from Yoga; but Sthiti and Anubhāga are from Kaşāya.". Thus bondage is classified in four ways — The Praksti bandha is bondage according to one's nature; the nature of the bondage which arises from our action
1 Jaini ). : An Epitome of Jainism, p. 544.
2 Dasgupta S. : History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. I, pp. 193-94.
3 Sarvadars'anasangraha, p. 75.
4 Ghosal S. C. ; Dravya Sa graha, p. 33/82. A 16
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