Essence Of Jaina Scriptures

SR No.: 022313
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jagdish Prasad Jain
Publisher: Kaveri Books
Publication Year: 2014
Total Pages: 508
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 38 MB

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THE ESSENCE OF JAINA SCRIPTURES
bondage. Therefore, this infatuation, attachment and aversion, as causes of undesirable consequences, must be radically destroyed by him who wishes for liberation.
Now he discerns that these (three vices), discovered by their distinctive marks, must be destroyed as soon as they appear:
85. Wrong perception of things, i.e. other than as they really are, absence of a feeling of compassiontowards animals and men, and indulgence in sense-objects, these are the characteristics (linga) of infatuation.
Infatuation, which has three roles inasmuch as it admits of taking, according to its three characteristics, the nature of infatuation through acceptance of wrong perception and knowledge about objects, through a feeling of compassion towards animals and men, who are only worthy of observation, the thought of attachment through inclination towards desired objects, and the thought of aversion through dislike of undesired objects, should be killed at its very rise.
Now he considers another means to the destruction of infatuation:
86. By him30 who understands the reality of things as they are from the scripture of the Jina with intuition and other direct means of valid knowledge, etc., the accumulation of infatuation is destroyed; therefore the scripture must be studied.
Whereas from a knowing of the Arhat in his inner nature as substance, qualities and modifications a similar knowledge of the self was accepted above (see comments on verse 80) as a means to the destruction of infatuation, that indeed requires another means, as follows:
The accumulation of infatuation, which causes the mental-habit (samskara) of attachment to that which is not the truth, is destroyed by him:
who has reached the first stage (of the road towards liberation), and who, having mastered the Word as source of knowledge, trustworthy in every respect and guaranteed by the authority of the Omniscient, plays with it and has at his command a full energy of special assuredness (samvedana), emphasized by the mental-habit (of studying this Word), and who by perception or any other means of knowledge not contradictory thereto, which give an ebullition of bliss, and which impart a splendour of bliss to the inind of feeling and intelligent men, distinguishes (read