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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Atman and Mokṇa
one
being. A Siddha is depicted by the Jainas as without caste, unaffected by smell, without the sense of taste, without feeling, without form, without hunger, without pain, without sorrow, without joy, without birth, without old age, without death,. without body, without Karma, enjoying an endless and unbroken calm."1
Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
1 Stevenson Sinclair Jaini J.: Outlines of Jainism, p. 40.
In order to attain such a state of liberation, the Jainas advocate the Samvara which is a process of arresting the influx of Karmic matter into the soul. The flowing of the Karma-matter into the soul has to be checked; otherwise there will not be any possibility of attaining moksa. Samvara, therefore consists in stopping the inflow of the Karmic matter into the soul. The Samvara is twofold. There is Bhāvasamvara and there is Dravya-samvara. The Bhavasamvara is a kind of subjective mental preparation or the development of consciousness and voluntary striving, mental and moral, along certain lines which can arrest the further influx of the Karmic matter into the soul. It consists in developing a kind of indifference towards the worldly things, and because of that further attachment to the worldly objects can be checked; naturally, the result is no new Karma sticks to the soul. The other kind of samvara is Dravya Samvara or objective way of preventing the further influx of Karmic matter into the soul, by actually shutting the channels through which the particles of Karma matter enter.
The Heart of Jainism, p. 169.
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